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logged-in users waiting for print jobs if the printer was jammed. Not being able to add these features to the new printer was a major inconvenience, as the printer was on a different floor from most of the users. This experience convinced
Stallman of people's need to be able to freely modify the software they use, thus the launch of the Free Software movement.
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were refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed Xerox 9700. Stallman had modified the software for the Lab's Xerox
Graphics Printer, a xerographic experimental raster printer, so it electronically messaged a user when the person's job was printed, and would message all
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