Simple fact. You claim to have read all of Stallman's writings, so look up his perspective. Otherwise, any old computer hacker can tell you that tapes were shared all the time between programmers. Unix and its original utilities grew on the sharing of these tapes.
Are you still saying "all programmers swapped tapes with each other" or are you finally backing off.
Unix and its original utilities grew on the sharing of these tapes.
Original Unix wasn't free to copy, infinitely. So those who did this did so illegally, in many instances, correct?