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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
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Study
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" If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user. "
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" 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. "
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Memory
Need
" Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. "
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" 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. "
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Ancient
Way
" 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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" 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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Only
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" I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. "
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" All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. "
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" 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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Job
Free
" 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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Free
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" Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy. "
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Easy
Digital
" 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. "
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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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" Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All. "
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" In the US, 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. "
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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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Everything
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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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" 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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You
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Freedom
" 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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" Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic. "
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Friendly
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" 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. "
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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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