Dan Weinreb (one of the founders of Symbolics) wrote a rebuttal to this article in 2007. The comments are also worth reading.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121107150708/http://danweinreb.org/blog/rebuttal-to-stallmans-story-about-the-formation-of-symbolics-and-lmi" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20121107150708/http://danweinreb...</a>
I'd like to know the thoughts of Stallman on Smalltalk. Curious to know what were the odds for an alternative timeline where the free software movement released a competitive open source Smalltalk back in the 80s.
The free source is supplemented or complemented by open source for a reason. This debate should be much documented than for the future kids to guess from posting in web archive and book hard to get.