Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone. - Richard Stallman

You and I we exist for ourselves, fundamentally. We should care about others but each human being is a source of value, each human being deserves things. And so if you lose control over your computing, that's bad for you, directly bad for you. So my first reaction is to say: Oh, what a shame; I hope you recover the control over your computing and the way you do that is to stop using the non-free software.

While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.

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.