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hawleyal on Feb 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Most of you steal your software"

I disagree.

Stallman was hacking in 1976 and many of his ilk were free software advocates.

Gates knew what he was doing. He derived his work from others, but denied others the same leeway.

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