- Scientist | March 16, 1953 -
Proprietary software is an injustice.
Richard Stallman
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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
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Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
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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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Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
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Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.
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A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
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In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
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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 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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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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