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Richard Stallman doesn?t take kindly to long introductions. As a representative of the University of Pittsburgh chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery recited a laundry list of thanks to all the people who had helped to bring Stallman to speak on ?Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation? last Thursday in the Benedum Engineering Hall, the man himself was hopping on one leg, barefoot, up and down the aisles of the auditorium. Laughter rippled.

The founder of the Free Software Foundation is known for his eccentricity. At his appearance Thursday, he asked whether anyone in the audience had a parrot. ?I like meeting friendly parrots,? Stallman said. He closed his talk with an appearance as ?Saint iGNUtius? of the Church of Emacs.

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