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I've never seen Stallman speak, but that sounds like a similar situation to this anecdote from Nottingham in the 80s:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwNKpDUkiE

It's a somewhat tedious story but it's all about the freedom to control your own hardware.



Stallman's version is described in http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

or with Stallman's edits (I'm not sure if he's modified this chapter) in

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Free_as_in_Freedom_2.0/Chapte...




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