I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

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.

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.

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

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.