Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

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.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.