Richard Stallman on Philosophy
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Richard Stallman, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Richard Stallman, entry #27876: "GNU philosophy pages - Contains around 50 essays, mostly written by RMS."
Attributed to Richard Stallman, entry #240659: "Stallman's answers to 25 user-submitted questions"
6 Quotes by Richard Stallman on Philosophy
"GNU philosophy pages - Contains around 50 essays, mostly written by RMS."
"Stallman's answers to 25 user-submitted questions"
"Philosophy of the GNU Project"
"For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. To look at page I send mail to a daemon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."
"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."
"You and I we exist for ourselves, fundamentally. We should care about others but each human being is a source of value, each human being deserves things. And so if you lose control over your computing, that's bad for you, directly bad for you. So my first reaction is to say: Oh, what a shame; I hope you recover the control over your computing and the way you do that is to stop using the non-free software."