I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

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

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

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

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