Advantage Quote by Richard Stallman

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

— Eben Moglen

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't…

— Richard Stallman

'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

— Erik Naggum

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

— Richard Stallman

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in…

— John Carmack

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would…

— Patrick Leahy

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

— Richard Stallman

Proprietary software is an injustice.

— Richard Stallman

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

— Richard Stallman

When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.

— Chad Hurley

“For all its flaws, copyright provides some incentive for people to take on the risk of creating new work by allowing for the possibility…

— Astra Taylor

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

— Richard Stallman