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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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“Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.”

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“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.”

Source Program Code Features Software Users Malicious

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“Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.”

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“If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.”

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“I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.”

People Ifs Way Want Break Share Program Agree Refuse Golden Conquer Divides Software Users Solidarity Golden Rule Sellers

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

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

“In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.”

Movement Software Users Libre

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“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.”

People Needs Firsts Reason Whole Today Jobs Steps Practicals Software Users First Steps Switching

Author:Richard Stallman

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Born: March 16, 1953
Known for: Activist
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