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.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

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.

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.

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

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

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