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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.
— Richard Stallman
Tags: useful, only, way, practice

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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
— Richard Stallman
Tags: you, freedom, history, politics
A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
— Richard Stallman
Tags: computers, smart, job, you
Proprietary software is an injustice.
— Richard Stallman
Tags: software, injustice
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
— Richard Stallman
Tags: potential, tell, never, you
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
— Richard Stallman
Tags: web, software, hands, you
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