No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

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.