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

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

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

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

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

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.