Java Quote by Bill Gates

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

— Richard Stallman

If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try…

— Richard Stallman

“software alone is a commodity. There is nothing stopping anyone from copying the feature set, making it better, cheaper, and faster.”

— Alex Moazed

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

— Neal Stephenson

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

— Richard Stallman

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

— Laura Poitras

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

— John C. Dvorak

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

— David F. Emery

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

— Bill Gates

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

— Richard Stallman