Exclusion Quote by Linus Torvalds

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

— David F. Emery

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

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

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people…

— Richard Stallman

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

— Richard Stallman

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary…

— Richard Stallman

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you…

— Matt Mullenweg

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

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

— Laura Poitras

Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all…

— Richard Stallman

I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer.…

— Golan Levin

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things…

— Bill Gates