157 Quotes by Richard Stallman

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.