Free Software Quotes
27 quotes by 12 authors
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The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.
— David F. Emery
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Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time…
— Erik Naggum
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Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes…
— John Carmack
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Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
— Richard Stallman
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Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
— Richard Stallman
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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 to…
— Richard Stallman
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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…
— Richard Stallman
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I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
— Andy Hertzfeld
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As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of…
— Eben Moglen
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Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in…
— Richard Stallman
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The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.
— Laura Poitras
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I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would…
— Richard Stallman
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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
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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…
— Richard Stallman
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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 to put an…
— Richard Stallman
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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 70s…
— Richard Stallman
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Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun,…
— Richard Stallman
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Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very…
— Mark Shuttleworth
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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world…
— Jimmy Wales
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
— Bill Gates
Who Wrote These Free Software Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 27 Free Software Quotes as follows: