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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Richard M. Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman
St. iGNUcius
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I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
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