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When President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s powerful leader, met in Indonesia last month, they appeared eager for a soft reset of a relationship that had been careening toward confrontation.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

In many ways, the Symbolics war offered the rite of passage toward which Stallman had been careening ever since joining the AI Lab staff a decade before.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam