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Open source is a development methodology free software is a social movement.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Richard M. Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman
St. iGNUcius
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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
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