Citations de Richard Stallman

En anglais : "When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of “free speech,” not “free beer.”"

Traduction :
Quand on dit qu'un logiciel est « libre » [free], on entend par là qu'il respecte les libertés essentielles de l'utilisateur : la liberté de l'utiliser, de l'étudier, de le modifier et d'en redistribuer des copies, modifiées ou non. C'est une question de liberté, pas de prix – pensez à « liberté d'expression » et pas à « entrée libre » [think of “free speech”, not “free beer”].

En anglais free a deux significations : libre et gratuit

Extrait de ce discours : "And, if you use recipes, you've probably had the experience of
getting a copy of a recipe from a friend who's sharing it. And you've
probably also had the experience -- unless you're a total neophyte -- of
changing a recipe. You know, it says certain things, but you don't have
to do exactly that. You can leave out some ingredients. Add some
mushrooms, 'cause you like mushrooms. Put in less salt because your
doctor said you should cut down on salt -- whatever. You can even make
bigger changes according to your skill. And if you've made changes in a
recipe, and you cook it for your friends, and they like it, one of your
friends might say, "Hey, could I have the recipe?" And then, what do you
do? You could write down your modified version of the recipe and make a
copy for your friend. These are the natural things to do with
functionally useful recipes of any kind.

Now a recipe is a lot like a computer program. A computer program's a lot
like a recipe: a series of steps to be carried out to get some result
that you want. So it's just as natural to do those same things with
computer programs -- hand a copy to your friend. Make changes in it
because the job it was written to do isn't exactly what you want. "


https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

En anglais : "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died."

Extrait de : "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective."

En anglais : "While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users." Stallman's law 2012


Autre traduction : "Maintenant que les grandes entreprises dominent la société et écrivent les lois, chaque avancée ou chaque changement de la technologie est pour elles une bonne occasion d'imposer des restrictions ou des nuisances supplémentaires à ses utilisateurs."

En anglais : "To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example."


Déclaration insérée par Richard Stallman dans ses email depuis les révélations d'Edward Snowden.
http://accuracy.org/release/free-software-pioneer-denounces-security-industrial-complex-and-portable-phones-as-stalins-dream/

En anglais : "Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone".