Proprietary Software Quotes by Richard Stallman

10 Proprietary Software quotes by Richard Stallman

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Stallman’s sharp criticism of closed‑source tools comes through in these ten excerpts, each cutting to the core of why he champions openness. It’s a compact snapshot for anyone curious about his advocacy.

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Proprietary software is an injustice.

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To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a…

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You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

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If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner"…

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To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a…

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Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code,…

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The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing.…

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I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other…

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Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the…

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

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I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software…

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

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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…

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Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

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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…

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EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the…

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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…

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When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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