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		tedunangst on April 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing You're asking a hypothetical that can't be answered, but it's based on the (very faulty, imo) premise that a world without Stallman would not have any free software. Open source was (and would be) alive and well without him.

pessimizer on April 7, 2012 [–]

>Open source was (and would be) alive and well without him.

You're making a assertion with no evidence or argument, and using it as a premise to dismiss a rhetorical question.

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