理查德·马修·斯托曼（Richard Matthew Stallman，简称rms，1953年3月16日－）是美国自由软件运动的精神领袖、GNU计划以及自由软件基金会（Free Software Foundation）的创立者。作为一个著名的黑客，他的主要成就包括Emacs及后来的GNU Emacs，GNU C 编译器及GDB 调试器。他编写的GNU通用公共许可证（GNU GPL）是世上最广为采用的自由软件许可证，为copyleft观念开拓出一条崭新的道路。他最大的影响是为自由软件运动竖立道德、政治及法律框架。他被许多人誉为当今自由软件的斗士、伟大的理想主义者，但同时也有人批评他过于固执、观点落伍。
It's elementary that laws don't decide right and wrong. Every American should know that, in the 1950s, it was against the law in many states for a black person to sit in the front of a bus; but only racists would say sitting there was wrong.
The idea of natural rights of authors was proposed and decisively rejected when the US Constitution was drawn up. That's why the Constitution only permits a system of copyright and does not require one; that's why it says that copyright must be temporary. It also states that the purpose of copyright is to promote progress----not to reward authors. Copyright does reward authors somewhat, and publishers more, but that is intended as a means of modifying their behavior. (查看原文)
Nowadays scientists in many fields don't publish enough in their papers to enable others to replicate the experiment. They publish only enough to let readers marvel at how much they were able to do. This is certainly true in computer science, where the source code for the programs reported on is usually secret. (查看原文)
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1 有用 管埋员 2018-11-28 00:31:06
给翻译减一星，不是质量不行，单纯一些用词不理想。
0 有用 magnus 2017-04-24 00:07:45
https://github.com/beijinglug/fsfs-zh/blob/master/docs/index.md
0 有用 出门向左 2017-04-18 18:52:35
再次科普吧，不过这本感觉看来相对枯燥
0 有用 曾大勇 2018-08-26 20:24:51
copyleft，不要让私人软件侵害你的自由，自由不仅仅是开源。
0 有用 小土刀 2017-01-05 14:27:40
这本书居然没什么人读过？不过对于程序员来说一直在咬文嚼字版权、开源和 GNU，对于其他人来说因为涉及代码又有些难以理解。总体来说阅读体验不算特别优秀
0 有用 koharu 2021-11-13 14:48:48
free programme在豆瓣居然是敏感词了
1 有用 八迹谷 2021-02-11 19:22:48
很好的书，解释概念，非常好的书，精神高
1 有用 移涌 2019-02-15 18:37:17
软件越自由，人们越自由
1 有用 管埋员 2018-11-28 00:31:06
给翻译减一星，不是质量不行，单纯一些用词不理想。
0 有用 曾大勇 2018-08-26 20:24:51
copyleft，不要让私人软件侵害你的自由，自由不仅仅是开源。