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Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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