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.

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

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

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

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.