I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.
Richard StallmanBecause I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.
Richard StallmanI could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
Richard StallmanIn the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
Richard StallmanAnything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
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