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Free Software Quotes by Richard Stallman
- Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
- Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
- The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software…
- Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
More Free Software Quotes
- The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less. — Unknown Author
- Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense… — Erik Naggum
- Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of… — 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… — 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… — Richard Stallman
- Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that… — 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… — Eben Moglen
- Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'… — Richard Stallman
- The free software community should be supported more widely. I’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… — Richard Stallman