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All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
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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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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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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I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
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You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
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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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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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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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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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If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
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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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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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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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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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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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Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
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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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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
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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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