Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman, often known by his initials, rms, is an American software freedom activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth16 March 1953
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You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
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Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
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By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.
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People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
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The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do,
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Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
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The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".
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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.
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
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I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
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Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.
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I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.