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

Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

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

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.