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Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on no… - Richard Stallman
" "Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
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About Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born 16 March 1953), often known as rms or RMS, is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License) for software.
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Also Known As
Pen Names:
rms
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Saint IGNUcius
Birth Name:
Richard Matthew Stallman
Alternative Names:
Richard M. Stallman
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R. Stallman
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St. IGNUcius
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Chief GNUisance
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RMS
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If we are content with knowledge as a commodity, accessible only through a computerized bureaucracy, we can simply let companies provide it. But if we want to keep human knowledge open and freely available to humanity, we have to do the work to make it available that way. We have to write a free encyclopedia.
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