joy of accomplishment.” Richard Stallman, “Why Software Should Be Free” (link).

“democracy under a dictatorship.” John Carroll, “Stallman Leads the GPL off a Cliff,” 2006 (link).

squatted on the MIT campus. Reuven M. Lerner, “Stallman wins $240,000 in MacArthur award,” in The Tech, July 18, 1990 (link).

“technical skills shortage.” Norman Matloff, “Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage: Testimony to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration,” 2002 (1998) (link): “It’s hard to open the business section of any newspaper these days without running across an article bemoaning the ‘skilled-labor shortage’ that is supposedly threatening the heart of American business.”

Comp Sci graduates. Ibid. (link): “[M]y own surveys of graduating seniors at UC Davis reveal that fewer than half of the graduating seniors in computer science get jobs in programming, and are instead shunted into semitechnical (albeit well-paid) jobs like customer support. Informal comments by colleagues at other universities have confirmed that this is the case nationally.”

new, cutting-edge technologies. Ibid. (link): “[A]ny competent programmer can pick up a new software skill on his/her own, on the job, without formal instruction.”

starting at $30-$35K. Ibid. (link): “[I]n spite of wild newspaper stories in 1998 about new computer science or engineering Bachelor’s graduates getting salaries approaching six figures, the going rate was in the mid-$40,000 range, even in high-cost-of-living regions.”