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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 46 quotes by Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms, is a software freedom activist and computer programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms (on receipt) is termed free software. He is best known for launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software Foundation,... Read full biography of Richard Stallman → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of... → 0 Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the... → 0 The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from... → 0 Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. 0 If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. 0 Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic. 0 People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. 0 Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. 0 I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of... → 0 The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice... → 0 Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. 0 The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a... → 0 One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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