Ричард Мэттью Столлман цитаты
Ричард Мэттью Столлман
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.
Подобные авторы
Марк Цукерберг17
американский программист и предприниматель в области интерн…
Питер Джозеф9
американский кинорежиссёр
Линус Торвальдс65
финский программист, хакер
Георгий Петрович Щедровицкий24
советский философ и методолог, общественный и культурный де…
Август Бебель2
деятель германского и международного рабочего движения, соц…Габриелла Рот3
исполнительница, режиссёр, танцор, философ, преподаватель
Фридрих фон Хайек19
австрийский экономист и философ
Стив Возняк7
Американский изобретатель, компьютерный инженер и программи…
Павел Валерьевич Дуров46
российский предприниматель, программистЦитаты Ричард Мэттью Столлман
„The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia.“
— Richard Stallman
Context: The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear that the War on Copying could go on for decades as well. To end it, we will need to rethink the copyright system, based on the Constitution's view that it is meant to benefit the public, not the copyright owners. Today, one of the benefits the public wants is the use of computers to share copies.
„I've always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing.“
— Richard Stallman
Context: !-- I was getting 8 to 10 orders [for tapes of Emacs] a month. And, if necessary, I could have lived on just that, because --> I've always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing. So make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life. You won't be able to do what's really important to you.<!-- line 422
„What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming.“
— Richard Stallman
Context: What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."
Interview in Hackers — Wizards of the Electronic Age (1985)
„Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now.“
— Richard Stallman
Context: Religious people often say that religion offers absolute certainty about right and wrong; "god tells them" what it is. Even supposing that the aforementioned gods exist, and that the believers really know what the gods think, that still does not provide certainty, because any being no matter how powerful can still be wrong. Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.
„A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness — not necessarily with computers.“
— Richard Stallman
Context: A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness — not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”
Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing (1996) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
