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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
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Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.
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Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
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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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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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I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
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Open source is a development methodology free software is a social movement.
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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 interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
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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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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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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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There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
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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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Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
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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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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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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
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Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.
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My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.
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