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There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
Activist
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Free Sofware Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Richard M. Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman
St. iGNUcius
Chief GNUisance
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Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
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I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?
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I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
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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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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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So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
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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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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
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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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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 interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
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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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