“If I'm the father of Open Source, it was conceived through artificial insemination using stolen sperm without my knowledge or consent.”

—  Richard Stallman

Reclaim Your Freedom with Free (Libre) Software (Web Summit, Lisbon, Portugal), Stallman, Richard, 2016-11-10, 2019-04-07, Web Summit https://youtube.com/watch?v=n9YDz-Iwgyw&t=1764,
2016

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