You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner"… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule:… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share
I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
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… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. — Richard Stallman Copy Share
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