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Richard Stallman, born on March 16, 1953, is a renowned activist. He is one of the founders of the free software movement, the founder of the GNU project, and the founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Stallman is dedicated to promoting the ideas of free software, advocating for users' freedom to use, study, modify, and distribute software.

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“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.”

People Ifs Sometimes Use Asks Church Sin Versions Ask Me Hacking Penance

Author:Richard Stallman

“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.”

Ifs Use Creating Deserve Program Innovative Programmers Tokens

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.”

Should Reason Use Loses Application Computing

Author:Richard Stallman

“For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.”

Looks Real Reason Use Running Computer Pages Connections My Time Demon Mail Efficient

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“You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.”

Want Use Remember Beast Editors

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“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.”

People Ideas Use Used Difficult

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“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.”

People Thinking Way Trying Use Information Approach Sabotage Trying To Change Knowledge And Information

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“Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.”

Use Social Results Creativity Society Contribution

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.”

Giving Writing I Can Use Names Software Compatible Unix

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.”

Giving Use Figures Advantage Code Software Copyright Developers

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

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Born: March 16, 1953
Known for: Activist
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