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MadHatter

What's to say? My real name's Tom Yates; check my personal website for a touch more detail, if you want to. I've been a professional UNIX/network sysadmin since 1991, and currently sysadmin free software for a living through my own little company. I write regularly for LWN. That's it.

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17 Why do some GNU distributions with a Linux kernel convey GPL software online without providing source code? Mar 9 '16
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