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Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman
Scientist
Born: Mar 16, 1953
Because Free Freedom Lose People You
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Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine. Richard Stallman
Facebook Friend Surveillance Your Engine
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. Richard Stallman
People Will Every Careless Minute Born Computing Towards Suppose Because Continue Moving Many Sucker
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness. Richard Stallman
Good Citizen Become Everyone Destructive Destructiveness Would Mutual Does Did Poorer Means Use Reason Good Citizen
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. Richard Stallman
Will Fighting Software Danger More Never Malaria Than Patents Any Eliminate
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. Richard Stallman
Practice Other Way Ancient Ancient Times Only Part Idea Non-Fiction Frequently Exist Times Survived Did Authors Length Useful Many Works Even Copied Copyright
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. Richard Stallman
Politics Freedom History You Will Value Lose Those Respond Bother Learn Want Us Your Teaches Your Freedom Who
Proprietary software is an injustice. Richard Stallman
Injustice Software Proprietary
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. Richard Stallman
You Rights Legal Police Lose Own Machines Give Data Instead Without Legal Rights Get May Store Stored Anything Your Warrant Showing Company Search Even Server Present Need
Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power. Richard Stallman
Change Power Unjust Others Software System Divided Proprietary Study Since Forbidden Because Does Source Really User Users Helpless Each Code Keeps Program
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. Richard Stallman
Life Myself People Writing World Money Walls Made My Life Building Back Way Worse Spent Would Divide Could Had Knew Feel Perhaps Look Making Years End Place Code Career Amused
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. Richard Stallman
People Control Difficult Other More Over Ideas Make Really Use Used Lives
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. Richard Stallman
Creativity World General Part Does Rewarded Justify Depriving Desire
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive. Richard Stallman
Work Long Nothing Pay Destructive Seeking Wrong Does Maximize Wanting Means Use Income
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Richard Stallman
Fashion Women More Only Computer Computer Industry Industry Than
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software. Richard Stallman
You Somebody Else Software Web Developed Proprietary Hands Use Whoever Server Program
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. Richard Stallman
You Every Software Consider Tell Must Potential Features Point Tends Never Proprietary Source Malicious Users Code Program
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom. Richard Stallman
Buy Freedom You Book Books Way Paper Cash Database Never Takes Freedoms Identify Anonymously Printed Always Amazon Any Which Acquire Certain Use Paying Away Credit Card Credit Card
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. Richard Stallman
System Delivered Installing Operating Operating System Without Discourage However Up Essence Usual Rigged Applications
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. Richard Stallman
Success Freedom You Free Other Our System Some Purpose Computers Developing Instead Development Thus Said Goal Explicitly Then Use Popularity Code
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. Richard Stallman
Freedom Increase Must Demand Readers Either Mean Decrease
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. Richard Stallman
Indeed System Android Component About Only Between Contains Operating Operating System Because Very Linux Just Common Different Little Kernel
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. Richard Stallman
Dangerous Software Developers Ideas Because Impose Patents Monopolies
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. Richard Stallman
You Somebody Lose Own Control Else Bad Web Computer Computing Proprietary Just Should Use Your Reason Using Server Applications Copy Program
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. Richard Stallman
You Phones Smart Job Free Insist Software Everything Say Those Run Tablets About Computer Computers Likewise Does Built Same Just Being Should Using

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