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No, I want to tell you the story of how you can take back control of your computer.
When I began working with computers as a college student in the late 1970s, there was a
revolution going on. The invention of the microprocessor had made it possible for
ordinary people like you and me to actually own a computer. It's hard for many people
today to imagine what the world was like when only big business and big government ran
all the computers. Let's just say, you couldn't get much done.
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story of how, some years earlier, Richard Stallman began the GNU Project to create a free
Unix-like operating system. That's an important story too, but most other Linux books
have that one, as well.
<span>No, I want to tell you the story of how you can take back control of your computer.
When I began working with computers as a college student in the late 1970s, there was a
revolution going on. The invention of the microprocessor had made it possible for
ordinary people like you and me to actually own a computer. It's hard for many people
today to imagine what the world was like when only big business and big government ran
all the computers. Let's just say, you couldn't get much done.
Today, the world is very different. Computers are everywhere, from tiny wristwatches to
giant data centers to everything in between. In addition to ubiquitous computers, we al Summary
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