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Would a dating service for people on the net be frowned upon by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.

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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
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