Richard Stallman on Books

This page displays 1 quotation attributed to Richard Stallman and filed under "books" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Richard Stallman, entry #78383: "The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way…"