#software

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#dangerous #developers #ideas #impose #monopolies

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#around #because #bring #class #every

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

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

#else #hands #program #proprietary #server

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#escape #free #freedom #movement #respects

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#developers #fair #higher #most #our

Proprietary software is an injustice. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#proprietary #software

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

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures