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Comment by jmclnx

>In a way, Torvalds is more true to liberty than Stallman: Do what you want with the code.

To be fair, RMS is not about that kind of liberty. IIRC, FSF/GNU was a reaction to a piece of hardware that the lab had that was orphaned. So he reversed engineered it and GNU took off from there.

I believe his intent was to protect the user to be able to use their hardware as they saw fit.

Corporations want to extort us to use items their way, not our way and to spy on how we use the product.

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