Richard Stallman
Scientist
1953-03-16
Books by Richard Stallman
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GNU Emacs manual
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Quotes by Richard Stallman
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Proprietary software is an injustice.
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Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
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Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
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A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
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If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
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Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
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In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.
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In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant.
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