Richard Stallman Quotes - Page 4

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• Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.

  Richard Stallman

  Dating, Mail, Ifs

  "Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978" by Brad Templeton, www.templetons.com.

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• 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

  Mean, Community, Mit

  Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing, www.gnu.org. 1996.

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• If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Animal, Practice

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• You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Justified, Software

  Richard M. Stallman's speech "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation", New York University in New York, New York, www.gnu.org. May 29, 2001.

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• Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

  Richard Stallman

  Breathing, Copying, Natural

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.29, Lulu.com

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

  Richard Stallman

  Fighting, Patents, Malaria

  Newsforge, September 09, 2004.

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• 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 to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Evil, Trying

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Want, Golden

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

  Richard Stallman

  Air, Able, Software

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

  Richard Stallman

  Giving, Use, Advantage

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• 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

  New York, Writing, Violence

  "MyDoom and You". www.gnu.org. 2004.

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• Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Writing, People

  Kde-licensing mailing list, marc.info. April 13, 1998.

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• 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

  Believe, Helping, Computer

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

  Richard Stallman

  Use, Reason, Should

  "Cloud Computing Is a Trap, Warns GNU Founder Richard Stallman". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• 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

  Government, Problem, Bigger

  Slashdot Interview, slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Purpose, Lists, Computer

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• The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

  Richard Stallman

  Real, Writing, People

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