Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

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.

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

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.