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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Open source is a development methodology free software is a social movement.
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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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Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
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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!
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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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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
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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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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.
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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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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
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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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There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
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It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have hack value.
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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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Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
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No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
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