“You and I we exist for ourselves, fundamentally. We should care about others but each human being is a source of value, each human being deserves things. And so if you lose control over your computing, that's bad for you, directly bad for you. So my first reaction is to say: Oh, what a shame; I hope you recover the control over your computing and the way you do that is to stop using the non-free software.”

— Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman on Free Software: Freedom is Worth the Inconvenience, Stallman, Richard, 2016-04-01, 2019-04-07, Singularity Weblog https://youtube.com/watch?v=NB8mCcLRxlg&t=3077,
2016

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