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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.

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

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Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.

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The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

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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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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

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

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One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless.

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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Scientist

Born: March 16th, 1953

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