#co

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#authors #bad #benefits #better #copyright

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computing #control #lose #reason #should

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

#consider #every #features #malicious #must

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#enough #fancy #i #some #stretched

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#already #cloud #computing #everything #include

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

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

#citizen #destructive #destructiveness #did #does

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

#does #income #long #maximize #means

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#based #conclusion #formula #get #how

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#combination #fills #horror #however #me