I partly agree with the underlying message that people should take charge and solve problems, rather than just cast blame on others.
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One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor -- but in the software world this is piracy. To prevent this, the U. S. is putting in place practices which are like those in the former Soviet Union -- computerized guards, propaganda in favor of licensing, rewards for informing on co-workers, and penalties which make distributing software as serious a crime as armed robbery.Richard Stallman
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
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If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it.
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Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
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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.
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