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![As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that’s-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law’s going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war’s going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/779/778701/778701.webp "As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that’s-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law’s going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war’s going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere Picture Quote #1")
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![It’s clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/902/901460/901460.webp "It’s clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software Picture Quote #1")
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Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free (Free Software Quotes)
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless. (Free Software Quotes)
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that’s good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better (Free Software Quotes)
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach (Free Software Quotes)
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that’s-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law’s going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war’s going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere (Free Software Quotes)
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects (Free Software Quotes)
Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. (Free Software Quotes)
It’s clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software. (Free Software Quotes)
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing. (Free Software Quotes)
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing. (Free Software Quotes)
Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. (Free Software Quotes)
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term ‘open source.’ (Free Software Quotes)
The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do. (Free Software Quotes)
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia. (Free Software Quotes)
Free software’ is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech,’ not as in ‘free beer’. (Free Software Quotes)
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. (Free Software Quotes)
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't (Free Software Quotes)
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement (Free Software Quotes)
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software (Free Software Quotes)
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes (Free Software Quotes)
The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less (Free Software Quotes)
Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there (Free Software Quotes)
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 (Free Software Quotes)
Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect, where something that is shared can become more valuable than something that is closely held, as long as it is both shared and contributed to by everybody who is sharing in it (Free Software Quotes)
The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do (Free Software Quotes)
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 (Free Software Quotes)
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn’t all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step (Free Software Quotes)
Every decision a person makes stems from the person’s values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better (Free Software Quotes)
When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver (Free Software Quotes)
'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer' (Free Software Quotes)
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