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Re:Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic by M_Bakhtiari on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:53AM (#16325247)
I've never heard him say anything bad about running MIT licensed software.

On the other hand, I think I've read a FAQ where he says he views web pages by having a script fetch the pages with wget and them emailing them to him, but I'm pretty sure that's simply because wget is free and does the job (being able to recursively download the necessary resources), not because it's GPL licensed.

Re:Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic by kbenson on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:35AM (#16325619)
Obviously Stallman is modifying his wget user agent to show curl just to prevent fingerprinting him accurately... ;)