What Apple Fans Are Missing
Apple is a bad company. 1.5 decades ago we made headlines for calling on people to boycott Apple. It was even in the front page of Slashdot. We used to cover many bad things that Apple was doing and had done for decades prior. Then our focus changed.
"A lot of bloggers and, especially, marketeers are yammering about five decades of Apple Computer Inc." an associate notes. "However, few to none point out that in the early days the hardware and software were documented. Not only did the OS come with a printed manual akin to a paper edition of UNIX manual pages but for AppleDOS the firmware's source code was included. Best, the hardware itself came with printed schematics, for those that had or could gain the skill to extend or mod it."
IBM used to do the same and that's how RMS learned computers as a child, as did others of his generation.
Quoting Kids encyclopedia facts:
Richard Stallman was born in New York City on March 16, 1953. He became interested in computers at a very young age. When he was a pre-teen, he read manuals for early computers like the IBM 7094.In 1970, after high school, he got a summer job at the IBM New York Scientific Center. He wrote programs and even created his own text editor. This was his first hands-on experience with computers.
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