I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

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

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.

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

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