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The GNU GPL was not designed to be open source.
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
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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
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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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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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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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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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The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
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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 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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Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
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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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