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)
The free software movement is a social movement.
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others.
Software patents are an obstacle to software development.
The purpose of the Free Software Foundation is to promote computer user freedom.
The term 'intellectual property' is a propaganda term.
If a program is proprietary, it's a trap.
The free software movement is about ethics, about human rights.
I am not interested in making money. I am interested in freedom.
The free software movement is a struggle for freedom.
The only way to be safe is to have free software.
The free software movement is a political movement.
The free software movement is about social justice.
The free software movement is about solidarity.
The free software movement is about community.
The free software movement is about democracy.
The free software movement is about human dignity.
The free software movement is about self-determination.
Contemporaries of Richard Stallman
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of Richard Stallman (1953).