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I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'
Proprietary software is an injustice.
Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.
Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.
I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.