Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.

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

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

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.