Richard Stallman Use Quotations

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.

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.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

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.

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.