Very ironic things have happened, but nothing to match this - giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is sort of like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Fleet. (Richard Stallman)

Very ironic things have happened, but nothing to match this - giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is sort of like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Fleet.

Richard Stallman

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