For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

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.

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

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.

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

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