Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.