If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it. 'Stand for something, or you will fall for nothing.' And if cynics ridicule freedom, ridicule community...if 'hard nosed realists' say that profit is the only ideal...just ignore them, and use copyleft all the same.

The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says 'no' to some of the things that people sometimes want to do. There are users who say that this is a bad thing--that th…

While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas.

The programmers who write improvements to GCC (or Emacs, or Bash, or Linux, or any GPL-covered program) are often employed by companies or universities. When t…