Activity Quote by 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

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

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe -…

— Wietse Venema

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

— Erik Naggum

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

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

— David F. Emery

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…

— 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

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

— Howard Stringer

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…

— Richard Stallman

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to…

— Bill Gates