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dman on July 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions...

While I might not agree with Stallman on a lot of things he is my hero for championing the cause of a computer where you can understand things on most layers of the stack. Comprehensibility of the underlying system is an important side effect of Free as in freedom.

SkyMarshal on July 30, 2010 [–]

Agreed. I've learned much more about computers and computing using Linux for a relatively short time than from years of Windows. Such a gift.

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