[SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: When was first campaign for computer users' freedom

[William McMillan]

Richard, it might not come across in the article or other available sources
on UCSD Pascal, but I'm convinced from many hours of interviewing Ken
Bowles that UCSD Pascal and the efforts in programmed instruction were
definitely about freedom, about empowering the end user and the small
enterprise.

Political?  Not so much, if that's your thrust.

- Bill

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:

>     In the late 1970s, Ken Bowles and students at UC San Diego produced
> UCSD
>     Pascal, which was largely an attempt to escape from the strictures of
>     mainframe computing.
>
> It sounds like this was about convenience, not freedom in the
> political sense of human rights.  But I will take a look at the
> article.
>
> Advances in features (such as drop-down menus) are not the issue here.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
> www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
>   Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
>
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