Дата рождения: 16. Март 1953
Ричард Мэттью Столлман — основатель движения свободного ПО, проекта GNU, Фонда свободных программ и Лиги за свободу программирования. Автор концепции «копилефта», призванной защищать идеалы движения; эту концепцию он с помощью юристов позже воплотил в лицензии GNU General Public License для ПО.
Столлман также известный программист. Из программ, автором которых он является, можно отметить GNU Emacs, Коллекция компиляторов GNU и Отладчик GNU . С середины 1990-х годов Столлман стал программировать значительно меньше, посвятив себя распространению идей свободного ПО.
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: http://www.weinstein.org/manuscript/oscon02_news.html http://www.weinstein.org/manuscript/oscon02_news.html
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: Перевод статьи Ричарда Столмана про уход Билла Гейтса из Microsoft http://habrahabr.ru/blog/open_source/46719.html
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: ANTICOPYRIGHT: BOOK 2 http://imperium.lenin.ru/LENIN/32/C/c2.html#rms1
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: Yellow Leaf - Новости - На переднем крае с Ричардом Столлманом http://ylsoftware.com/?action=news&na=viewfull&news=330
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: Free as in Freedom : Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch08.html (2002) Сэмом Виллиамсом (Sam Williams); Ch. 8 St. Ignucius
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: Interview with Richard Stallman: Four Essential Freedoms, December 19, 2007 http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3717476_2
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: Манифест GNU http://www.citforum.ru/operating_systems/articles/manifesto_rus.shtml
— Richard Stallman
Context: 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. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
"Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman", in The Guardian (29 September 2008)
— Richard Stallman
Context: In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system software, we called ourselves hackers. We were not breaking any laws, at least not in doing the hacking we were paid to do. We were developing software and we were having fun. Hacking refers to the spirit of fun in which we were developing software. The hacker ethic refers to the feelings of right and wrong, to the ethical ideas this community of people had — that knowledge should be shared with other people who can benefit from it, and that important resources should be utilized rather than wasted. Back in those days computers were quite scarce, and one thing about our computer was it would execute about a third-of-a-million instructions every second, and it would do so whether there was any need to do so or not. If no one used these instructions, they would be wasted. So to have an administrator say, "well you people can use a computer and all the rest of you can't," means that if none of those officially authorized people wanted to use the machine that second, it would go to waste. For many hours every morning it would mostly go to waste. So we decided that was a shame. Anyone should be able to use it who could make use of it, rather than just throwing it away. In general we did not tolerate bureaucratic obstructionism. We felt, "this computer is here, it was bought by the public, it is here to advance human knowledge and do whatever is constructive and useful." So we felt it was better to let anyone at all use it — to learn about programming, or do any other kind of work other than commercial activity.
MEME 2.04, an interview with David S. Bennahum (1996) http://memex.org/meme2-04.html
— Richard Stallman
Context: I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
I'm not the main leader in this particular battle. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting. Public Knowledge is fighting. People need to get involved politically. At this point people should go to the EFF website and the Public Knowledge website, and continue doing so over the coming weeks to see how they can get involved in this coming campaign. It's going to take a lot of people spending probably at least twenty minutes. If you care enough about your freedom to spend twenty minutes on it, if you can tear yourself away from whatever little job it is you're doing this week, and next week, and so on. Spend a little time fighting for your freedom, and we can win.
"Interview: Richard Stallman" on Kernel (4 January 2005) http://archive.is/20120711223115/kerneltrap.org/node/4484
— Richard Stallman
Context: I didn't receive the DEC message, but I can't imagine I would have been bothered if I have. I get tons of uninteresting mail, and system announcements about babies born, etc. At least a demo MIGHT have been interesting. … The amount of harm done by any of the cited "unfair" things the net has been used for is clearly very small. And if they have found any people any jobs, clearly they have done good. If I had a job to offer, I would offer it to my friends first. Is this "evil"? … Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.
First reaction to reports of the first commercial "spam" email, sent by DEC salesman, Gary Thuerk (8 May 1978), as quoted in "Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978" http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html#msg<!-- also only partially quoted in "Damn Spam", by Michael Specter, in The New Yorker (6 August 2007) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/06/damn-spam -->
— Richard Stallman
Context: While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas.
In 1998, some of the people in the free software community began using the term "open source software" instead of "free software" to describe what they do. The term "open source" quickly became associated with a different approach, a different philosophy, different values, and even a different criterion for which licenses are acceptable. The Free Software movement and the Open Source movement are today separate movements with different views and goals, although we can and do work together on some practical projects.
The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software should be open source is a practical question, not an ethical one. As one person put it, "Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement." For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is a social problem and free software is the solution.
