On that note, supposedly the reason that RMS started FSF and GNU was printer drivers.<p>Where the previous printer had come with source code for the drivers, allowing RMS to implement an &quot;out of paper&quot; message directed to accounts with a document in the queue, the new printer didn&#x27;t.<p>And when the company that sold it proved unhelpful he got frustrated enough that he ended up formulating what was to become the four freedoms.