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.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

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.

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.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

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