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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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" 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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" Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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