1. A brief history of the free movement

The free software movement was born of the scientific community's desire to share and disseminate knowledge.

In the early 1980s, the expansion and popularization of computing gave rise to a new, highly profitable market: software publishing. Publishers created and sold their products without disclosing the source code, in order to reserve a monopoly on use and impose their own conditions.

At the same time, the scientific community continued its research, giving free access to the source code.