I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. Richard Stallman bearcarelesscompute Change image and share on social
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. Richard Stallman dangereliminatefight Change image and share on social
Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power. Richard Stallman changecodedivide share on social
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. Richard Stallman developescapefree Change image and share on social
Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page. Richard Stallman browsebuttondisplay share on social
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic. Richard Stallman friendlygoodneighbour Change image and share on social
Proprietary software is an injustice. Richard Stallman injusticeproprietarysoftware Change image and share on social
In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. Richard Stallman authorbadbenefit share on social
Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself. Richard Stallman bringclassgoodwill share on social
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All. Richard Stallman americaassociationattack Change image and share on social