"If a technology is exclusionary, it does not work. If a community is exclusionary, it must be fixed or thrown away. T…"

"Well we can use our collective power to push others"

"What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they u…"

"To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the G in the word GNU when it is the name of this project."

"I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Soft…"

"GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will b…"

"Arrangements to make people pay for using a program, including licensing of copies, always incur a tremendous cost to…"

"Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."

"It may be true that one can reach more microcomputer users with advertising. If this is really so, a business which a…"

"GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing…"