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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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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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Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.
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All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
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Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
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I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
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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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Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.
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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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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
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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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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
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The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
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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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