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+history of software freedom
+
+in the beginning, all users were free
+	computers [examples?] came with software
+	software source code was shared freely
+	companies saw no reason to lock it away or forbid sharing and modification
+	something about hackers and the MIT model railroad club?
+proprietarization
+	mostly through the 1970s
+	IBM in 1969[?]
+	copyright extended to software
+	"Open Letter to Hobbyists"
+GNU
+FSF
+EULAs
+	legally-binding contracts
+	began as a way to limit warranties and disclaim liability
+	in the mid 1980s, became popular in forbidding sharing and modification
+Linux
+open source, Netscape
+something on DRM maybe?
+modern EULAs
+	limit free speech
+	allow developer to change software remotely without notice
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+in the beginning, there was freedom - ~02:00
+	DEC PDP-1
+		became the favorite machine of the budding hacker culture
+			after its donation to MIT in 1962
+		[WP-PDP-1]
+	DECUS
+		Digital Equipment Computer Users Society
+		users had to write software for PDP-1
+		founded in 1961
+		facilitated free exchange of info and sw between customers and DEC
+		[CHM-DECUS]
+	Spacewar!
+		space shooter with realistic physics that showed power of PDP-1
+		written by Steve Russel in 1961-1962
+		MIT hackers freely shared game
+		[Quinn, 316]
+		[CHM-Spacewar!]
+	Unix
+		originally written in 1969 to run on PDP-7
+			by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, M. D. McIlroy, and J. F. Ossanna
+		to be "a system around which a fellowship could form"
+		AT&T was required to license non-telephone tech. to anyone who asked
+			under a 1958 consent decree in settlement of an antitrust case
+		AT&T licensed Unix with source code to univs, corps, U.S. gov't
+		Lion's Commentary, 1976, documented Unix source code
+		Unix hackers of the early 1970s
+			enjoyed largely unrestricted access to Unix sys at univs and corps
+		throughout the 1970s, univs worldwide contributed greatly to Unix dev
+		[DMR-Hist]
+		[ESR-TAOUP-2.1]
+		[WP-Unix]
+proprietarization
+	IBM unbundling
+		1969
+		IBM stopped providing software in source form with hardware
+		instead began selling binary copies of software at a high cost
+		pioneered the "software industry"
+		[WP-IBM]
+	"Open Letter to Hobbyists"
+		written by Bill Gates, General Partner, Micro-Soft
+		published between January and May, 1976
+			in Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter, Computer Notes, et al
+		accused hobbyists of stealing
+		claimed that sharing software is unfair and prevents writing of good sw
+		[WP-Open-Letter]
+		[DB-Gates]
+	copyright
+		Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU)
+			established in 1974 to study and make recommends on legislation
+		Copyright Act of 1976
+			added 17 U.S.C. §117
+		Computer Software Copyright Act of 1980
+			added defn of "computer program" to 17 U.S.C. §101
+				explicitly made software copyrightable
+			rewrote 17 U.S.C. §117
+				"it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer
+				program to make or to authorize the making of another copy or
+				adaptation of that computer program provided:
+					(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an
+					essential step in the utilization of the computer program in
+					conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other
+					manner, or
+					(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival
+					purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in
+					the event that continued possession of the computer program
+					should cease to be rightful."
+GNU
+
+
+WP-PDP-1
+	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1
+CHM-DECUS
+	http://pdp-1.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/index.php?f=theme&s=4&ss=7
+Quinn
+	Quinn, Michael J.  _Ethics for the Information Age_.  Fourth Edition.
+	Addison-Wesley, 2011.  316.
+CHM-Spacewar!
+	http://pdp-1.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/index.php?f=theme&s=4&ss=3
+DMR-Hist
+	http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
+ESR-TAOUP-2.1
+	http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch02s01.html
+WP-Unix
+	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
+WP-IBM
+	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM
+	#1969:_Antitrust.2C_the_Unbundling_of_software_and_services
+WP-Open-Letter
+	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
+DB-Gates
+	http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/
+	homebrew_V2_01_p2.jpg