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Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

— 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

Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a…

— Mark Shuttleworth

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as…

— 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

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

— Richard Stallman

“When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.”

— Richard M. 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

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

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

— David F. Emery

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…

— Richard Stallman

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