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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) turns forty on October 4, 2025. The Free Software Foundation will have then been defending the rights of all software users for the past 40 years. The long term goal is for all users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share software.
There will be an online event, with an in-person option for those that can get to Boston. In November there will also be a hackathon.
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Forty Years of Commitment to Software Freedom
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday September 30, @08:59PM
I didn't like it. Thought it was super lame that we had to use this "split" utility to break a source code file into small enough pieces so that the text editor could handle it without running out of memory.
That was because of the 64k segments on the 16-bit PeeCee architecture? In those days, the 386 was very expensive and apparently coding for it was "very hard" mainly, I think, because people preferred to keep working code secret rather than publish and share it, and page tables were fancy mainframe things.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].