Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. Richard Stallman Read Quote
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. Richard Stallman Read Quote
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. Richard Stallman Read Quote
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. Richard Stallman Read Quote
If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user. Richard Stallman Read Quote
In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company’s machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company’s server, the police can get it without showing you anything. Richard Stallman Read Quote
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. Richard Stallman Read Quote
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. Richard Stallman Read Quote
Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn’t admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don’t know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user. Richard Stallman Read Quote