How A PRINTER Created Open Source  🔗 **Source:** [How A PRINTER Created Open Source](https://youtube.com/shorts/6TK69yGaFTQ?is=O8Vv-fABdN3KX5iO) All right, so in 1980, one jammedprinter combined with one really annoyedguy changed the entire software industryforever. So, the printer in question wasa Xerox 9700, and it was inside of MIT'sAI lab, and it kept jamming and annoyingpeople on the network. Now, our beardedprotagonist, the guy called RichardStallman, had already solved thisproblem once before and just wanted todo the same thing again, but it was abit of a snag because Xerox, people whomade the printer, were not willing toshare the source code for the printerdriver. Now, Stallman was shocked,stunned, and a bit disgusted by this.And it’s this frustration that led to 40years later, a helicopter flying on Marsrunning free software., How A PRINTER Created Open Source, Jono Bacon, 01m44wzw06ryhf0rk55ajzqqf6.