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Comparing the two is a bit like comparing Thomas Paine to Thomas Edison.

Stallman created a movement. A movement that largely predicted the ways technology and society interact. I think in 100 years people will still using the GPL. I can't say that about the iPod.




BS. Free software existed well before Stallman.


Do you have any examples please?


The first BSD work predated GNU by a good seven years.


The first BSD license is not Copyleft.




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