![]() ![]() Waiting for machines is an occupational hazard when you're a software programmer, so Stallman took his frustration with a grain of salt. To make matters even more frustrating, the four pages belonged to another user, meaning that Stallman's print job and the unfinished portion of somebody else's print job were still trapped somewhere within the electrical plumbing of the lab's computer network. ![]() Upon arrival, he found only four pages in the printer's tray. An hour after sending off a 50-page file to the office laser printer, Stallman, 27, broke off a productive work session to retrieve his documents. Stallman, a staff software programmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), discovered the malfunction the hard way. Free as in Freedom Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software ![]()
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