If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.
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"I don't use Google. I don't use Facebook. I don't use Twitter. I don't use any of those things."
"We must stand up for our freedom in the digital age."
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be 'pragmatic.'"
"Proprietary software is an attack on our freedom."
"Freedom is not free. It requires constant struggle."
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'.
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