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Free software father declared Ubuntu Linux to contain spyware

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Dec 9, 2012

Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has proclaimed that Ubuntu Linux includes spyware. Ubuntu supporters disagree with this take.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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