The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Richard Stallman
- Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
- If the users don’t control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the “owner” of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
- I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
- Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
- Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
- Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.
- You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
- Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
- 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.
- Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
Richard Stallman, born on March 16, 1953, is an American computer scientist and software freedom activist. He is best known for launching the GNU Project in 1983 and initiating the free software movement. Stallman’s vision was to create a Unix-like operating system composed entirely of free software. In pursuit of this goal, he developed numerous essential components, including the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and the GNU Emacs text editor.
Stallman’s advocacy for software freedom led him to establish the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, which promotes the principles of free software and maintains the GNU General Public License (GPL), a widely used free software license. He has been a staunch critic of proprietary software and has campaigned against software patents and digital rights management (DRM).
Beyond his technical contributions, Stallman is renowned for his uncompromising stance on software freedom and ethical computing practices. He has often been characterized as eccentric due to his idiosyncratic lifestyle and adherence to principles such as refusing to use non-free software or proprietary formats.
Despite controversies surrounding his personal conduct and communication style, Stallman remains a prominent figure in the free software community, continuing to advocate for digital rights and the principles of software freedom.
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