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Richard Stallman ‘basically’ has no problem with the NSA using GNU/Linux

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Swapnil Bhartiya
Jul 10, 2015

Yesterday it was revealed that the NSA was allegedly running its XKEYSCORE program on ‘Free and Open Source’ software. While this story generated mixed responses from the Open Source community, Richard Stallman has “basically” no problem with it, referring ITworld’s Swapnil Bhartiya to an FSF article where he says, ‘a program must not restrict what jobs its users do with it’ — and apparently that includes the NSA.
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