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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.”

Quote by Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman

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. more

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“My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.”

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“I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.”

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

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“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".”

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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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