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Hmm, maybe not. He received the "Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (1998)".

Pretty sure RMS would dislike the description:

"Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind development of the Linux kernel and overseer of open source development for the Linux operating system"

Everyone I tried explaining to that it's GNU/Linux has rolled their eyes at me like I'm some kind of pedantic madman. Then I gave up doing it and went back just calling it Linux.

Potato, tomato. No one cares outside of the RMS cult.

I call it Linux too, but the distinction becomes important when talking about Android.

Indeed. Ten years ago everyone made fun of Stallman for his insistence on calling it GNU/Linux (I was guilty of this as well). These days, with android so popular, it's very topical - I want GNU/Linux on my devices, not just linux.

At least the word "free" didn't appear in the description.

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