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

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

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

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

If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.