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"If I'm the father of open source, it was done by artificial insemination with stolen sperm."

Richard M. Stallman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAKasXdrXI&t=2m55s)



Oh wow, that's actually a great articulation what he stands for. It still seems like a superset of open source, i.e. that open source advocates believe in a subset of those ideals, and often for practical in leu of ideological reasons.




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