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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Richard M. Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman
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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
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Open source is a development methodology free software is a social movement.
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. Don't bother us with politics, respond those who don't want to learn.
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You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
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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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I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
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