For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
— Richard Stallman Contemporary

Free software zealot, eccentric habits

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Describing his personal computing habits, attributed to "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software".

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2002

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