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
rights government abuse
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
jobs people needs
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.
new-york writing violence
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
way ethics absolute-certainty
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.
moving people minutes
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
mean demand decrease
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
real people effort
So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.
source open-source
The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".
globalization good-things bad-things
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
writing technology law
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
want teach bother
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
clouds interesting cloud-computing
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do,
thinking people trying
I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.
learning sight editors
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.