Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.