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 More Quotes by Richard Stallman More Quotes From Richard Stallman You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. Richard Stallman justified software writing One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. Richard Stallman use should reason I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner. Richard Stallman alternatives people thinking A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth. Richard Stallman wealth together people A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.” Richard Stallman mit community mean 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 an end to it, at least in the area of software. Richard Stallman movement community people Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'. Richard Stallman liberty beer thinking 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 we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step. Richard Stallman today jobs people Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know. Richard Stallman iraq soldier art Laws that oppress people have no moral authority. Richard Stallman moral law people Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. Richard Stallman creativity society use Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good. Richard Stallman globalization bad-things good-things So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life. Richard Stallman effort real people I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. Richard Stallman born people moving The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source". Richard Stallman open-source source I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software. Richard Stallman violence new-york writing Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Richard Stallman absolute-certainty ethics way Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. Richard Stallman computer helping believe I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage. Richard Stallman trying people thinking EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight. Richard Stallman editors learning sight
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