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Comment by WalterGR | Hacker News Reader

From the article before it:

    Before Apple changed copyright law in 1983, "free
    software" was the norm from DECUS to the 8-bit
    BBS community.

I've heard both IBM and Microsoft be saddled with single-handedly introducing the scourge of non-Free software, but never Apple. Anyone know what the reference is to?

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Possibly/probably Apple Computer v. Franklin Computer, the first court case in the U.S. to extend copyright protections to an OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl....

Fixed URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl....

(your final dot was eaten by software ;-)

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