My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

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

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

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.

Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.