36. The GNU Manifesto, Stallman, 1985

• Free software - enabling users to access/use software tools
• When companies decided to charge for software, people backlashed and people were suddenly living in a "less free environment"
• It appeared that more and more computer users were unable to use the software tools that they used, even created, and unable to change them unless the companies lifted licensing restrictions.
• Author created the MIT AI Lab in response to this issue and created a "new free community" called GNU
• Brought into question licensing issues, intellectual property issues, copyright issues and "copy-left"