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zimpenfish on Nov 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Superior

RMS was "waxing poetic" about freedom long before people were paying him to give the "same talk over and over".

douche on Nov 28, 2016 [–]

MIT pretty much paid him to fool around and tickle his fancies for years before that, though.

I'm not knocking it, I wish I had that kind of freedom.

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