I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

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.

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

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

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

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.