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The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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