Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

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

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

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

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

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