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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/first-hackers-conference-1984.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/first-hackers-conference-1984.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ec6147 --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/first-hackers-conference-1984.html @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.97--> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="gnu-history" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> +<title>Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/gnu/po/first-hackers-conference-1984.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/gnu/gnu-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> +<h2>Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984</h2> +<div class="thin"></div> + +<p>The first Hackers Conference was held in Sausalito, California, in +November 1984. The makers of the documentary <cite>Hackers: Wizards of +the Electronic Age</cite> interviewed Richard Stallman at the event. +They included only parts of the interviews in the film, but made some +other footage available. Stallman's statements at the conference went +beyond what he had written in the <a +href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html">initial announcement of GNU</a>.</p> + +<p>It was at this conference that Richard Stallman first publicly and +explicitly stated the idea that <em>all software should be free</em>, +and makes it clear that “free” refers to freedom, not price, +by saying that software should be <em>freely</em> accessible to +everyone. This was probably the first time he made that distinction to +the public.</p> + +<p>Stallman continues by explaining why it is wrong to agree to accept a +program on condition of not sharing it with others. So what can one +say about a business based on developing nonfree software and luring +others into accepting that condition? Such things are bad for society +and shouldn't be done at all. (In later years he used stronger +condemnation.)</p> + +<p>Here are the things he said:</p> + + <blockquote> + <p><i>“My project is to make all software free.”</i></p> + </blockquote> + + <blockquote> + <p><i>“Imagine if you bought a house and the basement was locked + and only the original building contractor had the key. If you needed + to make any change, repair anything, you'd have to go to him, and if + he was too busy doing something else he'd tell you to get lost and + you'd be stuck. You are at that person's mercy and you become + downtrodden and resigned. That's what happens when the blueprints to a + computer program are kept secret by the organization that sells it. + That's the usual way things are done.”</i> + <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-at-first-hackers-conference-1984.webm"> + Video</a></p> + </blockquote> + + <blockquote> + <p><i>“If I'm offered a chance to use a piece of software + provided I would agree not to share it with anyone, I feel that it + would be wrong, it would spiritually <a href="#Note1" id="Note1-rev">[1]</a> + hurt me to agree. So I don't want them investing in software that's owned. + And I don't believe that anything is justified to encourage them to invest in + software that's owned. I think the really great software has been done by + hackers who were doing it because they loved it, because it was playful + cleverness, and that will continue in any case. I think there are + alternative ways of arranging for some amount of money to go into + paying salaries of people, paying them to spend their time writing + programs. If people want certain kinds of programs to be written, they + can come up with other forms of organization—I can suggest a + few—but the important thing is there are lots of alternative + ways of doing things. This one has been chosen because it gets the + people investing in software companies the most profits of any of the + available ways.”</i> + <a + href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161107235202/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/at-the-first-hackers-conference-in-1984-richard-stallman-news-footage/146485179">Video</a></p> + </blockquote> + + <blockquote> + <p><i>“I don't think it's a social imperative to give them the + most possible profit. I think the social imperative is that + information that's developed should be accessible to everyone as freely + as possible. If we look at the principle underlying—the incentive + principle, give people incentives to do the things you wish to + encourage—and then we say, ‘what are we giving people + incentives for?’ we see that we are not giving them any + incentives to do the things that benefit society most. If a person has + a choice, he can write a program and then encourage everyone to use it + in any way that's good for him or he can write the program and then + market it hoarding the plans, telling people they are not allowed to + share it with their neighbors, being very obnoxious and obstructive. + We see he has an incentive to be obnoxious and obstructive, he doesn't + have an incentive to cooperate. I think that's sick, I think that's a + bad social organization, because we are encouraging most what's not + good for us.”</i> + <a + href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161108001731/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/at-the-first-hackers-conference-in-1984-richard-stallman-news-footage/146484701">Video</a></p> + </blockquote> + +<hr class="thin" /> + +<h3 class="footnote">Footnote</h3> + +<p> <a href="#Note1-rev" id="Note1">[1]</a> +Subsequently Stallman decided to stop using the word “spiritually,” +so that people would not think he meant to refer to anything supernatural.</p> + +</div> +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. 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