Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

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

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

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.

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

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