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Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Richard M. Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman
St. iGNUcius
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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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Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
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I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.
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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 suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
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Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
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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 ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
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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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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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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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