Best quotes by Richard Stallman on Freedom

Checkout quotes by Richard Stallman on Freedom

• ‟ A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

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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.

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

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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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• ‟ If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

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• ‟ Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'

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• ‟ With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

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• ‟ When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

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

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• ‟ The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.

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• ‟ The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.

  - Richard Stallman