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The Great GNU/Linux Division

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Bruce Byfield
Apr 23, 2019

The days are long past when free software advocates refused to go to LinuxWorld because it wasn’t GNU/Linux World. For example, six years ago I met Eben Moglen, the framer of the GNU General Public License, version 3, and the founder, president, and executive director of Software Freedom Law Center, at non-FOSS and non-GNU (but open source) OSCON.

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Bruce Byfield

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