“Very ironic things have happened, but nothing to match this — giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is sort of like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Fleet.”

—  Richard Stallman

Upon receiving the Linus Torvalds Award at Linuxworld, (1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxMJQLXmBE
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