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by coldtea 4211 days ago
>I think this would've been unfathomable to the handful of people who knew what Free Software (in the rms sense) back in the 1980s and 1990s.

Err, back in the mid-to-end nineties far from being unfathomable, a widespread belief was that each year (or 'soon') would be the year of "Linux on the Desktop" and Linux overthrowing Windows.

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Natalie Portman, hot grits, Netcraft confirms. I read Slashdot, too, but that didn't make the predictions any more real-sounding.
The unfathomable part is that Android would not be free software.