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

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

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

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.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

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.