Richard Stallman — "I don't use any software that reports back to its developer."
I don't use any software that reports back to its developer.
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"Freedom is not free. It requires constant struggle."
"I don't use Google. I don't use Facebook. I don't use Twitter. I don't use any of those things."
"The purpose of free software is to give users freedom, not to make software popular."
"Using proprietary software is like living under a dictatorship."
"'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'"
About Richard Stallman (born 1953)
American programmer who founded the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, whose copyleft GPL licensing made the modern Linux ecosystem possible. Closely associated with Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel creator who builds on GNU userland) and Eric S. Raymond (open-source advocate (The Cathedral and the Bazaar)). For an intellectual contrast, see Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder — Gates's 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists arguing for software-as-property is the foundational document Stallman's GPL was specifically written to refute — the two opposing answers to 'who owns the code'.