"The purpose of free software is to give users freedom, not to make software popular."

"To punish people for possessing some sort of published work — whether 'child pornography' or 'terrorist information' or anything else — is simply wrong. And it regularly hurts the innocent."

"Proprietary software is a violation of human rights."

"I don't use any software that requires me to agree to a restrictive license."

"The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware."