The Situation Now (2019)
Sam opened his eyes to the sun shining in his window, birds chirping outside, and the smell of a fresh summer breeze. It was a glorious day, perfect for the launch of the campaign. Sam got himself ready, grabbed a bite to eat, and jumped on the bus on his way to his job at the Proprietary Software Foundation.
Sam loved his job at the PSF. He joined right when it was founded in 2014, in response to the Global Crash of 2012. Since the crash, everyone began to falsely associate proprietary software with insane amounts of centralized control, DRM, and restrictions, just because of a single coding bug. This bug in the way Windows handled time, found in Windows 95 through Windows 7, caused a crash that resulted in random data being written directly to all of the root filesystems at midnight on December 1, 2012. People had wrongly accused Microsoft and the nature of proprietary software for the resulting crash of the global economy, when in reality, the only person at fault was the developer who made the error. The PSF was founded by Sam and some fellow Novell employees to right this wrong misconception. Free Software was getting its dirty hands on the world’s devastated (formally proprietary) computers, so the PSF had to work quickly as to ensure the world’s technology system was not rebuilt using Free Software.
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