Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think everyone should have a free spirit.
I'm a free spirit.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.
My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.
I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.
Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
