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
beer thinking speech
Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'
ideas feelings criticism
Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.
law ideas justice
The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.
giving way fundamentals
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
breathing copying natural
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
mean able masters
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.
littles androids linux
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.
always-happy
I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
views long people
We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.
wall writing years
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.
writing skills done
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.
writing justified software
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
dating mail ifs
Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' . . . ? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.
jobs jail fool
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.