Richard Stallman Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Richard Stallman quotes and sayings page 4 (71 year old scientist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 44 we have for her.
“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.”
“One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.”
“Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.”
“A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In the US, 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.”
“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.”
“Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.”
“Proprietary software is an injustice.”
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