I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

— Richard Stallman, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (2002)

Source: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch08.html

On why he chose not to write proprietary software; quoted in Sam Williams's 2002 book.

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