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 about empowerment.
The free software movement is about progress.
The free software movement is about the future.
The free software movement is about a better world.
The free software movement is about justice.
The free software movement is about equality.
The free software movement is about peace.
The free software movement is about love.
The free software movement is about humanity.
The free software movement is about life.
Think of 'free' as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'.
Free software is software that gives you the freedom to share and change it.
The only way to make software development sustainable is to give its principal developers the freedom to share and change it.
Proprietary software is the golden calf of the software industry.
I believe that all software should be free.
The term 'open source' is an attempt to water down the free software movement.
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.
If you want to be an ethical hacker, you have to be a free software supporter.
Sharing of software is essential to the computer community.
The GPL is designed to ensure that freedom is propagated.
Contemporaries of Richard Stallman
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of Richard Stallman (1953).