We promote free software as an ethical and social issue. Computer users should always have the freedom to share and change the software they use. It's wrong to try to stop someone.

Protecting essential freedoms is always a matter of restricting the actions that would deny them.

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free sof…

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.