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Richard Stallman

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People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.


— Richard Stallman


#church #free #hacking #happy #me

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.


— Richard Stallman


#governments #human #human rights #pressured #rights

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


#control #difficult #ideas #lives #make

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.


— Richard Stallman


#deserve #innovative #programmers #programs #punished

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.


— Richard Stallman


#achieve #choose #enough #goal #idealism

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.


— Richard Stallman


#ethical #go #long #long way #major

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.


— Richard Stallman


#facebook #friend #surveillance #your

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.


— Richard Stallman


#danger #eliminate #fighting #malaria #more

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.


— Richard Stallman


#free #free software #freedom #our community #respects

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.


— Richard Stallman


#being #friendly #good #neighbour #prevents






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Did you know about Richard Stallman?

I've campaigned for freedom since 1983 and I am not going to surrender that freedom for the sake of a more convenient computer. He objects to the use of binary blobs in open source projects such Linux Foundation Linux kernel and advocates Linux-libre as an alternative. Terminology

Stallman places great importance on the words and labels people use to talk about the world including the relationship between software and freedom.

In 1989 he co-founded the League for Programming Freedom. He campaigns for the freedom to use study distribute and modify software; software that ensures these freedoms legally (via its license) is termed free software. At the same time he encourages people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can.

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