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

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

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.

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

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

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