Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman, often known by his initials, rms, is an American software freedom activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth16 March 1953
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We've partly removed the inconveniences of preventing a user from combining code from various free software packages.
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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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designed to prohibit all free software. It covers only code that implements, precisely, the Microsoft formats, which means that a program under this license does not permit modification.
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Accusations against innocent people happen with terrible regularity, and the danger of false convictions is immense.
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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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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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Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
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H.R. 354 would effectively allow facts to become private property, simply through their inclusion in an electronic database. Ominously, many collections of public records, maintained by companies on contracts to governments, would become property of those companies.
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part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.
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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 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.
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I partly agree with the underlying message that people should take charge and solve problems, rather than just cast blame on others.
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If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it.
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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.