Able Quote by Richard Stallman

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our…

— Richard Stallman

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas,…

— Richard Stallman

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing…

— Dennis Ritchie

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…

— 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

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

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…

— Richard Stallman

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do…

— Linus Torvalds

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

— Neal Stephenson

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can…

— Linus Torvalds

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the…

— Erik Naggum

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things…

— Bill Gates