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Richard Matthew Stallman (born 16 March 1953), often known as rms or RMS, is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License) for software.
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C++ is a badly designed and ugly language. It would be a shame to use it in Emacs.
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
The hard part of programming is the same regardless of the language.
Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers' feelings.
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Friends share music with each other, they don't allow themselves to be divided by a system that says that nobody is supposed to have copies.
LibrePlanet Keynote Speech (2015)
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution.
GNU Manifesto (1985)
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
HOPE Speech (2006)
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs — and certainly not Islam.
It is funny, but I'm disappointed that it accentuates the shallow.
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
Stallman's Law (2012)
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
My Doom and You (2004)
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
Friend don't let companies spy on friends.
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.
Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism (1998)
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
I have to explain that I'm not an anarchist – I have a pro-state gland.
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