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" All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. "

Richard Stallman

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" 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

" 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

" 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. "

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" Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page. "

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" Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. "

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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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" 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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" The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. "

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" 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. "

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

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" One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. "

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" Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy. "

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" If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. "

Richard Stallman

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

Richard Stallman

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

Richard Stallman

" Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. "

Richard Stallman

" 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. "

Richard Stallman

" The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. "

Richard Stallman

" Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power. "

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" In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant. "

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" 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. "

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" Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. "

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" Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine. "

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" The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. "

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" If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. "

Richard Stallman

" Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn't admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don't know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user. "

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