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Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications Picture Quote #1

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer Picture Quote #1

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software Picture Quote #1

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction Picture Quote #1

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It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow Picture Quote #1

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It’s a marvelous opportunity. We’ll keep developing products Picture Quote #1

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause Picture Quote #1

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory Picture Quote #1

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you Picture Quote #1

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock Picture Quote #1

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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy Picture Quote #1

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? Picture Quote #1

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it Picture Quote #1

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases Picture Quote #1

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it’s those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song Picture Quote #1

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software Picture Quote #1

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We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers Picture Quote #1

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work Picture Quote #1

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way Picture Quote #1

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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems Picture Quote #1

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists Picture Quote #1

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software Picture Quote #1

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended Picture Quote #1

Writing software that’s safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting Picture Quote #1

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That’s the way the world works Picture Quote #1

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Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them (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 (Software Quotes) As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications (Software Quotes) Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer (Software Quotes) Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software (Software Quotes) Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction (Software Quotes) It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow (Software Quotes) Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It’s a marvelous opportunity. We’ll keep developing products (Software Quotes) When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause (Software Quotes) Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory (Software Quotes) Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you (Software Quotes) So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock (Software Quotes) With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy (Software Quotes) Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? (Software Quotes) There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it (Software Quotes) Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases (Software Quotes) For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it’s those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song (Software Quotes) I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software (Software Quotes) We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers (Software Quotes) I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code (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 (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 (Software Quotes) I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work (Software Quotes) For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way (Software Quotes) In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems (Software Quotes) Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists (Software Quotes) Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software (Software Quotes) This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended (Software Quotes) Writing software that’s safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting (Software Quotes) You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That’s the way the world works (Software Quotes)

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