Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

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

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

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

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.

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.