This is not your everyday computing story. The technological press is not configured to describe these events - or even the possibility of these events. The vocabulary of the Office Integration Pack Group Test and Review cannot hold. Here's the Authorised Version of the Free Software story. The future was dedicated to the dissemination of uncorruptable knowledge, passed on and improved through the frictionless channels of the fledgling Net.
Graduates sell out to companies, who retail their code without sharing the knowledge behind it.
Software that, when bought, could not be changed, or fixed, or improved. Frozen forever - imprisoned by the greed of its owner, who did not want his secrets revealed, or his product redistributed to the needy. Horrified, but isolated, Richard M. Stallman, at MIT's AI Lab, makes a stand. Stallman is viewed as a saint by many in the Free Software movement. And, if you ask him, he'll dress like one.