By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

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

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

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.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.