#software

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#free #free software #freedom #our community #respects

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#else #hands #program #proprietary #server

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#escape #free #freedom #movement #respects

Proprietary software is an injustice. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#proprietary #software

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#consider #every #features #malicious #must

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#developers #fair #higher #most #our

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#anti-virus #breed #change #combat #conceived

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#alone #anti-virus #cannot #even #first

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. ↗

— Steve Case

#befuddled #better #computers #easier #expensive

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. ↗

— Steve McConnell

#software-engineering #money