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"The proper term is 'GNU/Linux', not 'Linux'."
"Calling proprietary software 'open source' is like calling a prison 'open architecture.'"
"I decided not to have children. (...) Not having children is an important contribution to humanity. My decision probably reduced the 2050 population by 5 to 10 people."
"…and do not post it to YouTube, as it doesn't work with free software!"
"We need to teach children about free software from an early age."
American programmer who founded the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, whose copyleft GPL licensing made the modern Linux ecosystem possible. Closely associated with Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel creator who builds on GNU userland) and Eric S. Raymond (open-source advocate (The Cathedral and the Bazaar)). For an intellectual contrast, see Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder — Gates's 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists arguing for software-as-property is the foundational document Stallman's GPL was specifically written to refute — the two opposing answers to 'who owns the code'.
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