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The term was coined by Richard Stallman in 1984 as a derisive critique of Symbolics, Inc. , a company he actively opposed. While employed at MIT , Stallman had worked on a Lisp Interpreter as part of the Lisp Machine project. An agreement between MIT and Symbolics allowed Symbolics to use the code, and required the company to let the university review changes to it, but did not give the university rights to the changes themselves.