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Software Quotes by Richard Stallman
- Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
- Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
- 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…
- To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in…
- 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…
- GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give…
- You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
- 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…
- I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage…
- 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,…
- Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
- Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
- In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
- 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…
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- It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper
- Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson