Free Software Quotes

27 quotes by 12 authors

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less. — David F. Emery
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
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
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. — Richard Stallman
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
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
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
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement. — Andy Hertzfeld
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
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
The free software community should be supported more widely. Iâ€™m totally in solidarity with what they do. — Laura Poitras
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
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
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
Paying isnâ€™t wrong, and being paid isnâ€™t wrong. Trampling other peopleâ€™s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an… — Richard Stallman
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful clevernessâ€”not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s… — Richard Stallman
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
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
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
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: