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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.


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Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.



Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.



I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.



Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.



You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.



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Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.



Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.



By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.



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

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



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

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





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The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.



Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.



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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.



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True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.



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Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.



Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.



I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.



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Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.



I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?




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