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If in my lifetime the problem...

If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

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Today many people are switchi...

Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

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It doesn't take special talen...

It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

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Paying isn’t wrong, and being...

Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.

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Our mailing lists (and their ...

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

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A hacker is someone who enjoy...

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

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It's clear that other problem...

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

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I figure that since proprieta...

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

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The principal lesson of Emacs...

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

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I have not seen anyone assume...

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

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I never imagined that the Fre...

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

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Writing non-free software is ...

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

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Because I don't believe that ...

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

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When I launched the developmen...

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.

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Value your freedom or you will...

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

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Free software is software that...

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

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In the free/libre software mov...

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

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If ebooks mean that readers' f...

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

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With paper printed books, you ...

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

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In the US, you even lose legal...

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.

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