Quotes from Richard Stallman

If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant.

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

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

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

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.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.