Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

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

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