The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

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

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

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

Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.