The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
From Richard Stallman
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
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.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
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