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Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
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Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
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While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas.
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Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism.
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Extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive because the restrictions reduce the amount and the ways that the program can be used. This reduces the amount of wealth that humanity derives from the program. When there is a deliberate choice to restrict, the harmful consequences are deliberate destruction.
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In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system software, we called ourselves hackers. We were not breaking any laws, at least not in doing the hacking we were paid to do. We were developing software and we were having fun.
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March 16, 1953
(age 71)
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Richard Matthew Stallman, often known by his initials, rms, is a software freedom activist and computer programmer.
Known for:
Free Software, Free Society (2002)
GNU Emacs Manual (1985)
GNU make (1989)
Bison: The Yacc-Compatible Parser Generator (1992)
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