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Red Herring: Q&A: Richard Stallman

“He doesn’t have a cell phone. He doesn’t use anything but free
software. He hardly watches movies on DVDs. Free software advocate
Richard Stallman is so uncompromising he refers to digital rights
management as digital ‘restrictions’ management.

“As the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author
of the widely used GNU Public License, Mr. Stallman is not just a
huge proponent of free software, he opposes what he sees as any
kind of restriction on intellectual freedom. Owning a cell phone is
giving into being monitored by mobile phone companies, he
argues…”


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