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While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas.

— Richard Stallman Why "Free Software" is better than "Open Source (1998)

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Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers' feelings.

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