"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
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"Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.“
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"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."
-Richard Stallman
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"When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal."
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"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."
-Richard Stallman
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"If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase."
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"In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't."
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"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."
-Ed Turner
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"Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously."
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"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
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"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
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"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space."
-Jack Schmitt
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