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
creating use program
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.
bullshit people world
People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
hacking difficult
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
program source software
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
thinking geek
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
community social solidarity
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
sex giving trying
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?
technology digital-technology digital
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
writing mean simple
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".
writing islands java
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
editors want use
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
surveillance engines
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
unions way coca-cola
By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.
practice ideas fiction
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.