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jrockway on July 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software ...

Little known fact: the GNU project got its 501(c)(3) status by starting The Church of Emacs. The software is just something they do for fun.

(I might have made that up.)

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