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

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.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

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.