Showing posts with label Richard Stallman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Stallman. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The New Republic

"What we have today is government of the people, by the flunkies, for the corporations."
-- Richard Stallman on Trusted Computing (what he called 'Treacherous Computing'), "GPLv3 - Transcript of Richard Stallman from the fifth international GPLv3 conference, Tokyo, Japan"

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Goals in life

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.
-- Richard Stallman in "Free Software as a Social Movement," ZNet, December 18, 2005.

Give me liberty or...

I'm a Liberal, in US terms (not Canadian terms). I'm against fascism.
-- Richard Stallman in "Free Software as a Social Movement," ZNet, December 18, 2005.

(Apparently liberalism is not a global unified thing. See Liberalism at Wikipedia.)