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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
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. Don't bother us with politics, respond those who don't want to learn.
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To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.
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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.
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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.
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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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The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.
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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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In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.
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Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
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Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
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Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
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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.
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