Some good stories start with a printer. And as it often happens, stories with a printer end up in frustration. This particular story of Open Source starts in the 1970s with a cutting-edge prototype laser printer the Xerox Corporation had donated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) and a young (now infamous) Richard Stallman frustrated by constant paper jams. When Stallman wanted to write a small program sending out a warning message in ca...
