What Richard Stallman thinks about cybersecurity

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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

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1. 17 Sept 2026

   Our readingCompanies that gain control over people's computing facilities have historically used that power to build malicious functionality benefiting themselves into the software they distribute

   Their wordsHistorically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.

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