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: Interview with Richard Stallman: Four Essential Freedoms, December 19, 2007 http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3717476_2
— 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: Yellow Leaf - Новости - На переднем крае с Ричардом Столлманом http://ylsoftware.com/?action=news&na=viewfull&news=330
— Ричард Мэттью Столлман
Source: ANTICOPYRIGHT: BOOK 2 http://imperium.lenin.ru/LENIN/32/C/c2.html#rms1
— 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: Манифест GNU http://www.citforum.ru/operating_systems/articles/manifesto_rus.shtml
— Richard Stallman
2000s, Context: To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.
Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software", address at Goeteborg, Sweden (16 May 2007)
— Richard Stallman
1980s, GNU Manifesto (1985), Context: I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. For years I worked within the Artificial Intelligence Lab to resist such tendencies and other inhospitalities, but eventually they had gone too far: I could not remain in an institution where such things are done for me against my will.
So that I can continue to use computers without dishonor, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free. I have resigned from the AI lab to deny MIT any legal excuse to prevent me from giving GNU away.
— Richard Stallman
2000s, Context: If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.
— Richard Stallman
2000s, Context: Free software permits students to learn how software works. Some students, on reaching their teens, want to learn everything there is to know about their computer and its software. They are intensely curious to read the source code of the programs that they use every day. To learn to write good code, students need to read lots of code and write lots of code. They need to read and understand real programs that people really use. Only free software permits this.
Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret — learning is forbidden!” Free software encourages everyone to learn. The free software community rejects the “priesthood of technology”, which keeps the general public in ignorance of how technology works; we encourage students of any age and situation to read the source code and learn as much as they want to know. Schools that use free software will enable gifted programming students to advance.
Why Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2003) http://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html
— Richard Stallman
2000s, Context: Freedom and community are important. Gratis software is not worth such an effort, because price is usually not an ethical issue. Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.
"Interview with Richard M. Stallman" in Free Software Magazine (23 January 2008) http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_richard_stallman
