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+working title:
+History of Software Freedom: Free Software and Open Source
+
+hackers
+	will explain first
+	hacker values permeate and give context to the history of software freedom
+	definitions:
+		RFC 1392
+		   hacker
+		      A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the
+		      internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in
+		      particular.  The term is often misused in a pejorative context,
+		      where "cracker" would be the correct term.  See also: cracker.
+			[RFC1392, 21]
+		RMS
+			It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as
+			hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is
+			playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means
+			exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful
+			cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack
+			value".
+			[RMS-hacking]
+		Jargon file
+			1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems
+			and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who
+			prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet
+			Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights
+			in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a
+			system, computers and computer networks in particular.
+			2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who
+			enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
+			3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.
+			4. A person who is good at programming quickly.
+			5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does
+			work using it or on it; as in ‘a Unix hacker’. (Definitions 1
+			through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
+			[Jargon-hacker]
+	MIT Tech Model Railroad Club
+		1950s and 1960s
+		members sought to learn how things worked
+		members disliked authority
+		information wants to be free
+		vocabulary
+			foo, frob, cruft, hack, etc.
+	TODO: continue history, describe hacker ethic
+	examples of hacks
+		MIT
+			campus police car on the Great Dome
+			[IHTFP-CP-Car]
+		RFC 1149
+			A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
+			CPIP (Carrier Pidgeon IP)
+				Bergen Linux User's Group
+				2001-04-28: Bergen, Norway
+				— 10.0.3.1 ping statistics —
+				9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss
+				round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms
+			[RFC1149]
+			[Jargon-meaning]
+			[BLUG-CPIP-WG]
 in the beginning, there was freedom - ~02:00
 	DEC PDP-1
 		became the favorite machine of the budding hacker culture
@@ -67,6 +127,18 @@ proprietarization
 GNU
 
 
+RFC1392
+	http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1392.txt
+RMS-hacking
+	http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
+Jargon-hacker
+	http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
+RFC1149
+	http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
+Jargon-meaning
+	http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
+BLUG-CPIP-WG
+	http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
 WP-PDP-1
 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1
 CHM-DECUS