The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length … - Richard Stallman

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Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?

Richard Stallman

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

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You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

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Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

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If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

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I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

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Android is very different from the GNU
Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU
Linux is Linux, the kernel.

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