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Side note: This is the first E-Mail I've seen from Stallman in over 4 years that hasn't started with his usual boilerplate:

    [[[ 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. ]]]
See e.g. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-10/msg00... (just picked his latest on emacs-devel) for an example.



Stallman without boilerplate, Linus without rants, what has the world become? Maybe, when everybody is loud and screaming in rage, the escapist role is the quiet, humble and introspect one.


Likely because its an official announcement rather than a "personal" email. eg when libreboot left GNU he didn't include it there either: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-01/msg00001....


Maybe he wants the NSA and FBI to take note as well.




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