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STALLMAN : Right. The difference is that the people who developed X and Mach didn't have the goal of making a complete free operating system. We're the only ones who had that. And, it was our tremendous work that made the system exist. We actually did a larger part of the system than any other project. No coincidence, because those people &mdash; they wrote useful parts of the system. But they didn't do it because they wanted the system to be finished. They had other reasons.