Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

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.

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

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.