Richard Stallman Quotes - Page 3

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• If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

  Richard Stallman

  Creating, Use, Program

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

  Richard Stallman

  Moving, People, Born

  "Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2010.

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• 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 good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Jobs, Race

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

  Richard Stallman

  Jobs, People, Today

  "Why 'Free Software' is better than 'Open Source'". www.gnu.org. 1998.

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• Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

  Richard Stallman

  Believe, Helping, Computer

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• All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

  Richard Stallman

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.

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  Choices, Decision, Suffering

  Slashdot interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

  Richard Stallman

  Phones, Long, Way

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

  Richard Stallman

  Real, Hands, Skills

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• Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

  Richard Stallman

  Beer, Thinking, Speech

  "Second sight" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2005.

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• So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

  Richard Stallman

  Real, People, Effort

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.133, Lulu.com

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• In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

  Richard Stallman

  Movement, Software, Libre

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

  Richard Stallman

  School, Helping Others, Should Have

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• The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Should, Flash

  OpenBSD mailing list, Subject: "Re: Real men don't attack straw men", marc.info. December 14, 2007.

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• We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

  Richard Stallman

  Views, Long, People

  "Interview with Richard Stallman: Four Essential Freedoms" by Roy Schestowitz, IT Management, December 19, 2007.

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• Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

  Richard Stallman

  Law, People, Moral

  "Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works". Lecture by Richard Stallman in Goeteborg, Sweden, May 16, 2007.

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• I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Skills, Different

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

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  Art, Iraq, Soldier

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• If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Demand, Increase

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• Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Writing, People

  Kde-licensing mailing list, marc.info. April 13, 1998.

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• Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

  Richard Stallman

  Inevitable, Campaigning

  "Cloud Computing Is a Trap, Warns GNU Founder Richard Stallman". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

  Richard Stallman

  Source, Open Source

  "Re: GPL version 4" on NetBSD mailing list, mail-index.netbsd.org. July 17, 2008.

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• In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

  Richard Stallman

  Pain, Wish, World

  "Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

  Richard Stallman

  Globalization, Good Things, Bad Things

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• Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

  Richard Stallman

  Ideas, People, Use

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.31, Lulu.com

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