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.

— Richard Stallman, Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism

Source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html

From 'Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism', published by the Free Software Foundation.

Topics: open source