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> Which would you rather be: Apple or Xerox PARC?
wow. i would much rather 'be' xerox parc. i think that they brought infinitely more value to the human race and probably had a lot more fun doing it. the author is nuts.
hopefully stallman will be able to go out on as high a note
when you create the worlds de facto compiler, debugger and maybe the world's most powerful text editor, you can say whatever you want.
your privacy is your own responsibility, not google's. there are services you can pay for that will erase your online identity and there are programs you can use to ensure you won't have to use them again.