Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin, Ch. 8

“Richard M. Stallman, though a freshman at Harvard, began
working for Russ Noftsker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in
1971. While still in high school (The Adams School through junior
year, senior year at Louis D. Brandeis on West 84th Street) in New
York, he had worked briefly at the IBM Science Center and at
Rockefeller University.

“As he put it,

“I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed
for many years. Sharing of software was not limited to our
particular community; it is as old as computers, just as sharing of
recipes is as old as cooking. But we did it more than most…”

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