Richard Stallman
Founder of the free software movement and the GNU Project.
Most quoted
"Calling it 'intellectual property' is a propaganda term designed to confuse people into thinking that the various different laws that restrict what you can do with information are all one thing, and that they all have the same moral basis."
— from Various speeches
"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."
— from The GNU Project
"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."
— from Essays
All quotes by Richard Stallman (373)
I'm not an anarchist, I'm a freedom activist.
The problem with 'open source' is that it doesn't emphasize freedom.
If you don't control your computer, your computer controls you.
The term 'piracy' is a propaganda term used by publishers to demonize sharing.
Sharing is good. Proprietary software is evil.
The only way to ensure your freedom is to use free software.
I am not a prophet. I am a programmer.
The 'Internet of Things' is really the 'Internet of Surveillance.'
If you want to be free, you must be able to control your own computing.
Proprietary software is like a prison for your mind.
The term 'software as a service' is a euphemism for 'software as a trap.'
The goal of the free software movement is social justice.
I'm not against business, I'm against injustice.
The only way to have a truly democratic society is to have free software.
The term 'smart' in 'smart devices' usually means 'spy.'
If you don't have the freedom to share, you don't have freedom at all.
Proprietary software is a form of social control.
The 'Internet of Things' is a disaster for freedom.
The only way to be secure is to have free software.
I'm not a communist, I'm a free software activist.
Contemporaries of Richard Stallman
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of Richard Stallman (1953).