Richard Stallman

Below the fold are thirteen links to the most important statements from Richard Stallman, father of GNU (GNU's Not Unix), and arguably the most important mind responsible for starting the Open Source Everything revolution. He prefers the term Free.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html
https://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html
https://gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html
https://gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html
https://gnu.org/proprietary/
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html
https://stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf

See Also:

Richard Stallman's Personal Page

Wikipedia / Richard Stallman