Quotes by Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

People

Together

Wealth

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

Community

Mean

Mit

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.

Helping Others

School

Should Have

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Long

Phones

Way

Because I don’t believe that it’s really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn’t be willing to help uphold the security regime.

Believe

Computer

Helping

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Coca Cola

Unions

Way

Every decision a person makes stems from the person’s values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

Fun

Helping Others

People

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.

Community

Social

Solidarity

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won’t leave you alone.

Geek

Thinking

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.

Golden

People

Want

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Believe

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Coca Cola

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Crafts

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Defeated

Demand

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Fiction

Flash

Fun

Fundamentals

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Giving

Golden

Government

Hands

Helping

Helping Others

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Idiot

Increase

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Quotes by Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

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.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Because I don’t believe that it’s really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn’t be willing to help uphold the security regime.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won’t leave you alone.

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.

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