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Old 08-28-2009, 04:30 PM   #1
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Not many people know that it was an obscure battle between Richard Stallman and a company called Symbolics that led directly to the creation of the GNU project - and hence free software. As well as losing to RMS, Symbolics has another claim to fame: it was the first doman name registered. And now, after all these years, that name is finally being sold.

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