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And then I heard that somebody at Carnegie Mellon University had a copy of that software. So I was visiting there later, so I went to his office and I said, &ldquo;Hi, I'm from MIT. Could I have a copy of the printer source code?&rdquo; And he said &ldquo;No, I promised not to give you a copy.&rdquo; [Laughter] I was stunned. I was so &mdash; I was angry, and I had no idea how I could do justice to it. All I could think of was to turn around on my heel and walk out of his room. Maybe I slammed the door. [Laughter] And I thought about it later on, because I realized that I was seeing not just an isolated jerk, but a social phenomenon that was important and affected a lot of people.