Interview: Richard Stallman - Facebook and Google+ Mistreat Their Users
Kuryraym
2013-11-27
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
Richard Stallman's Personal Site: http://stallman.org/
Quotes by RMS:
"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
"Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic."
"'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'."
"Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough, you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be pragmatic."
"I'm always happy when I'm protesting."
"Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."
"Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking."
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."
"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
Originally uploaded here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymuqUJ3MsEs
Richard Stallman's Personal Site: http://stallman.org/
Quotes by RMS:
"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
"Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic."
"'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'."
"Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough, you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be pragmatic."
"I'm always happy when I'm protesting."
"Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."
"Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking."
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."
"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
Originally uploaded here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymuqUJ3MsEs
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