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  People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don’t accept the world.

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• With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don’t identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

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• When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it’s a success. It’s not popularity for our code but it’s success for our goal.

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• The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

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• The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.

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• Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

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• Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don’t have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

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• Proprietary software is an injustice.

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• One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

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• Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

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• In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company’s machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company’s server, the police can get it without showing you anything.

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• In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users’ freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn’t.

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• In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors’ principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

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• In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

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• If you use a proprietary program or somebody else’s web server, you’re defenceless. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.

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• If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.

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• If ebooks mean that readers’ freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

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• I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there’s a sucker born every minute.

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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.

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• Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

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Richard Stallman (40)

Birth:	16th March, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Scientist

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Richard Matthew Stallman, often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.

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• 1953 - Richard Stallman
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