Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
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.
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.
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