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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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" 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

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" Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. "

" I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. "

" CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. "

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

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

" Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. "

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

" 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. "

Richard Stallman

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Proprietary software is an injustice. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All. "

" 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. "

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

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

" In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. I'd say the problem is in the nature of the job ChromeOS is designed to do. "

Richard Stallman

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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. "

" In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "