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but nothing to match this
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Giving the Linus Tovarlds award
to the Free Software Foundation
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is sort of like giving the
Han Solo award to the rebel fleet.
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You see, some of you may not realize how far
that analogy goes.
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But actually let me tell you
how this, how we got here.
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see what happened is,
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15 years ago, if you wanted to use a computer,
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the only way you could do it
was to, was with proprietary software,
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software that divides and subjugates the users.
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And most people just...
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A lot of people didn't like it.
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But they saw no alternative.
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But some of us were determined
to make an alternative.
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And we said we're gonna develop
a free operating system,
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a free software operating system
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that will give users the chance to have freedom
while they use their computers.
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Now a lot of people said, "Well, it's a nice idea
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but it's so hard, you'll never get it done,
1:28:17
so I don't wanna participate,
I don't believe you can ever get it done."
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But luckily not everybody said that.
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And clearly, we knew
we would eventually get the kernel done.
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But as it happens.
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somebody else did a better kernel before we did.
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Now in the old days, we had an overall strategy
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from calling people's attention
to the importance of freedom
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To the freedom they can have, or not have,
when they use a computer.
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Well what can we do about it?
As far as I can tell,
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the only workable way of trying to
change this make that strategy work again
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is to, spread the word that the operating system
you're using is actually the GNU system.