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

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

If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

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

Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.