Richard Stallman Quotes

• Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn’t admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don’t know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

• CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.

  Richard Stallman

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• Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

  Richard Stallman

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• Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

  Richard Stallman

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• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Without, Whether

• Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us with politics’, respond those who don’t want to learn.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in History, Politics

  Tags in Freedom

• There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one’s income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Long, Wrong

• The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Become, Reason

• The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Wrong, Everyone

• The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors’ works have survived even in part.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea, Times

• The desire to be rewarded for one’s creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creativity, Desire, General

• People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Free, Sometimes

• If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Need, Enough

• If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Same, Deserve, Creating

• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, End

• Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fighting, Danger

• Control over the use of one’s ideas really constitutes control over other people’s lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, Control, Difficult

• Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friendly, Anything, Terror

• All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

  Richard Stallman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Rights, Correct

Richard Stallman (40)

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

About

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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