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Quotation of the Day for March 25, 2015"But there are other things that are attacking users' freedom to run their computers. Nowadays, lots of people are using platforms that don't allow any free software. They literally forbid the installation of free software. For instance the iThings, those digusting monsters that are the evil legacy of Steve Jobs. They are platforms for censorship. They do not allow users to freely install whatever programs they wish. They will only allow the user to install the programs that are approved by Apple. Now this definitely should be illegal. We should ban the sale of general-purpose computers which are platforms for one company to censor the user. Or for a group of companies to censor the user." - Richard M. Stallman, godfather of the free software movement, from his keynote address at the LibrePlanet 2015 conference. [http://libreplanet.org/wiki/GNU30/RMS_30th_anniversary_address] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 24, 2015  |
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