Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.
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 pr… - Richard Stallman
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 pr…
- Richard Stallman
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. - Richard Stallman
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. - Richard Stallman
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft. - Richard Stallman
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. - Richard Stallman
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can neve… - Richard Stallman
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can neve…
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 software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine. - Richard Stallman
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good. - Richard Stallman
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
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