Some small wording issues: - "the original programmers" suggests them being some of the first programmers, while there were many before; was it based on a text about hackers? - Lisp is a programming language, not an operating system; Lisp machines were developed by MIT, Symbolics and LMI, they wrote operating systems for them - the free software movement probably wasn't Linus's motivation for writing Linux; maybe it was for choosing the GPL later - "At least not as defined by the Free Software Foundation" could be replaced by an explanation of the problem: commercial use restrictions (is it common enough so the reader will find other packages with this problem?) - calling open source "pragmatic" suggests the FSM and the FSF not being pragmatic, this isn't true; there might be better words to express the focus on user-restricting business - "thousands of individuals and companies" could have better examples than just two nonfree software vendors
I haven't seen such an introduction starting with the microcomputer history (maybe since RMS did not consider them important or powerful enough to be useful), it's a good example.
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