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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. "
Richard Stallman
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
Richard Stallman
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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. "
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" Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine. "
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Friend
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" 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. "
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Better
Bad
" The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. "
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Women
Only
" 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
You
Web
Use
" 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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Up
Job
Nature
" 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
Only
Ancient
Way
" 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
Best
Certainty
Ethics
" I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. "
Richard Stallman
People
Born
Because
" 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. "
Richard Stallman
You
Copy
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. "
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You
Escape
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. "
Richard Stallman
Politics
History
You
" 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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Freedom
Computers
Success
" Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic. "
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Friendly
You
Good
" Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. "
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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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" Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy. "
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Easy
Digital
" 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
" 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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" 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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Job
Good
Competition
" If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. "
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" 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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