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From:	Richard Stallman
Subject:	Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness
Date:	Tue, 08 Mar 2022 23:21:00 -0500

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

Free software means that the developers cannot decide who can use it
and who cannot.  If we had the power to stop Russia from using a program,
we would also have the power to anyone else from using it.
That would not be free software.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

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