Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

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Publisher Description

It is a Book related to Computer Software. The book describes that the Richard M. Stallman, a staff software programmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), discovered the malfunction the hard way. An hour after sending off a 50-page file to the office laser printer, Stallman, 27, broke off a productive work session to retrieve his documents. Upon arrival, he found only four pages in the printer's tray. To make matters even more frustrating, the four pages belonged to another user, meaning that Stallman's print job and the unfinished portion of somebody else's print job were still trapped somewhere within the electrical plumbing of the lab's computer network. Waiting for machines is an occupational hazard when you're a software programmer, so Stallman took his frustration with a grain of salt. Still, the difference between waiting for a machine and waiting on a machine is a sizable one. It wasn't the first time he'd been forced to stand over the printer, watching pages print out one by one. As a person who spent the bulk of his days and nights improving the efficiency of machines and the software programs that controlled them, Stallman felt a natural urge to open up the machine, look at the guts, and seek out the root of the problem.

GENRE
Computers & Internet
RELEASED
2004
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
306
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
212.3
KB

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