"In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users’ freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn’t."
― Richard Stallman
Topic(s):
Freedom
More From Richard Stallman
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Freedom
- "I don’t look so closely at women’s fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves."― Tadao Ando
- "Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you’re born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be."― Freida Pinto
- "While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State."― Vladimir Lenin