If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software. Richard Stallman defencelessdevelophand Change image and share on social
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. Richard Stallman applicationchromedeliver Change image and share on social
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. Richard Stallman decreasedemandebooks Change image and share on social
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. Richard Stallman codecomputerdevelop share on social
In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant. Richard Stallman companydatumgive share on social
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing. Richard Stallman computecontroldeserve share on social
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. Richard Stallman amusebackbadly share on social
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.' Richard Stallman awareethicalexist share on social
CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. Richard Stallman bookshopcopydigital 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