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)
Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others.
The first step in using computers in freedom is to reject proprietary software.
I don't want to live in a world where everything I do is watched and recorded.
The worst enemy of freedom is a happy slave.
If you want to be free, you must be ready to part with some conveniences.
The free software movement is a campaign for freedom. It's a social movement.
If you give people freedom, they will do amazing things.
I don't use the term 'intellectual property' because it is a seductive mirage.
The term 'intellectual property' is at best a catch-all to lump together disparate laws.
Digital restrictions management (DRM) is designed to take away your freedom.
We call it 'free software' because it respects the users' freedom.
I don't use web browsers much. I usually wget pages and read them in Emacs.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and paved with binary blobs.
Contemporaries of Richard Stallman
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of Richard Stallman (1953).