Sorcery in the open

In the 1970s a bunch of academics started complaining when software was only delivered as a compiled artifact. It was kind of ignored by the companies trying to monetize their software, but it was taken up by a small group of people championing free software. By the 1980s, they codified their demands. Then in the 1990s, the ubiquity of the home computer, mixed with the distribution channel of…