"Every decision a person makes stems from the……" — Richard Stallman
"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, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better."
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81 Quotes by Richard Stallman
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People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
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No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
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