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Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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