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

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

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

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

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.