> Compare this to our current situation, where everyone's so used to clicking "I Agree" on an EULA screen before they can use a program that many Free Software programs (most famously Firefox) started including such screens, even though there is no requirement to agree to any terms before using them!
This is in part due to the fact that for a long time it was difficult to forgo the EULA screen on the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, which a lot of free software projects were using for their Windows ports.
Though I've also never used a Lisp machine, integrating my setup closely with Emacs, SLIME, and stumpwm has been one of the very best computing decisions I've made.
This is in part due to the fact that for a long time it was difficult to forgo the EULA screen on the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, which a lot of free software projects were using for their Windows ports.