I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

On why he decided against writing proprietary software

As quoted in: Free as in Freedom : Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software' (2002) by Sam Williams

Richard Stallman Quotes

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of...

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of...

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of...

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of...