If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict… — 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
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
It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be… — 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
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be… — 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
The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as… — 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
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
