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Richard Stallman Quotes
«One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor -- but in the software world this is piracy. To prevent this, the U.S. is putting in place practices which are like those in the former Soviet Union -- computerized guards, propaganda in favor of licensing, rewards for informing on co-workers, and penalties which make distributing software as serious a crime as armed robbery.»
«Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.»
«I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it.»
«The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.»
«British book publishers plan to put a microchip into every book to record who owns it - an unprecedented surveillance measure.»
«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.»
«All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.»
«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.»
«Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.»
«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.»