<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello everyone - <div><br></div><div>This question (via Dave Farber's list) seemed like a good one for SIGCIS members to think about. My first thought is that answers would depend on one's definition of each of the operative terms (campaign, computer, user, freedom) :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div><div>PS you might cc Stallman and Farber on any responses that have examples of earlier 'campaigns.'</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Richard Stallman" <<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>><br>Date: Aug 4, 2012 1:43 AM<br>Subject: When was first campaign for computer users' freedom<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br><br type="attribution">The free software movement, a campaign for computer users' freedom,<br>
started in 1983.<br>
<br>
Do you know of any other campaigns for computer users' freedom prior<br>
to that? I don't mean the same specific issue (free vs proprietary<br>
software), I mean any issue of freedom from unjust power, specifically<br>
in regard to computer users or computer use.<br>
<br>
The reason I'm asking is that the free software movement might have<br>
been the first such campaign, but I can't sure yet.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Dr Richard Stallman<br>
President, Free Software Foundation<br>
51 Franklin St<br>
Boston MA 02110<br>
USA<br>
<a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="_blank">www.fsf.org</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a><br>
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.<br>
Use free telephony <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/" target="_blank">http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/</a><br>
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