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itWorldCanada: GNU Guru Asks Taiwan PC Makers to Free Their Drivers

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“Richard Stallman, one of the main forces behind the GNU/Linux
operating system and the free software movement, is in Taiwan
fighting on a new front–to get the island’s PC makers to release
source code for their drivers.

“‘We just need the information about what their drivers have to
do,’ Stallman said during a speech at the National Taiwan
University in Taipei on Wednesday. Then GNU software writers can
create code for open source systems, he said…”


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