Free software

"Software manuals must be free, for the same reasons that software must be free, and because the manuals are in effect part of the software. The same arguments also make sense for other kinds of works of practical use — that is to say, works that embody useful knowledge, such as educational works and reference works. Wikipedia is the best-known example. Any kind of work can be free, and the definition of free software has been extended to a definition of free cultural works applicable to any kind of works."

"The legal system doesnt work. Or more accurately, it doesnt work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I dont think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done."

"Lets put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Lets not go there. We dont base our morality on law."

"You may not like the fact that some information must be licensed, but thats how it is. Those who want information to be free as a matter of principle should create some information and make it free."

"There is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops software for charity. For innovation to continue, there needs to be value - and even open-source applications have some form of market model, which incentivises them to continue innovating."

"My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better."