Dan Weinreb (one of the founders of Symbolics) wrote a rebuttal to this article in 2007. The comments are also worth reading.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121107150708/http://danweinreb...

I'd like to know the thoughts of Stallman on Smalltalk. Curious to know what were the odds for an alternative timeline where the free software movement released a competitive open source Smalltalk back in the 80s.

The free source is supplemented or complemented by open source for a reason. This debate should be much documented than for the future kids to guess from posting in web archive and book hard to get.

Should mark 2002 and we’ll stallman