Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

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.

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.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.