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Richard Matthew Stallman or also known as RMS is not a strange figure for free software enthusiasts. He is widely known for his GNU Project. In order to campaign the free software movement, Stallman also founded Free Software Foundation and wrote GNU General Public License
As a hacker and free software activist, Richard Stallman is stick with his idealist attitude that a software should be available for free, which mean, everyone should have a privilege to use, modify, study and redistribute the software. That's why Stallman is also well-known for his resentment to Microsoft
Richard Stallman is an acclaimed hacker. Many people respect him regarding his stately purpose to let everyone have a full control over a software. If you are fan of Richard Stallman, you must be familiar with the following quotes from him
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
When I do this, some people think that it's because I want my ego to be fed, right? Of course, I'm not asking you to call it "Stallmanix"!
I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
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
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough--you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be "pragmatic.
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs
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.
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.
I see nothing unethical in the job it does. Why shouldn't you send a copy of some music to a friend?
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free
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
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat -- and there are a number of other Linux companies going public -- basically show that yes, you can actually make money in the open-source area
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about ... public humiliation
I founded the free software movement, a movement for freedom to cooperate. Open source was a reaction against our idealism. We are still here and the open-source people have not wiped us out.
If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it
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