What Richard Stallman thinks about writing

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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 readingAncient rock art does not encode a precise, detailed message the way writing does

   Their wordsTo suppose that this rock art image has a precise message encoded in little details, as writing would have, has no factual basis that I know of.

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