"RMS sends his own characteristic birthday greetings to celebrate the marriage of GNU and Linux..."

"Finally someone has seen the light and started a project that I called for in a previous article. This melding of the Minix kernel with the GNU userland is called Preventa..."

"Much of the communication on the Internet happens between computers according to standards that define common languages.

"Wget is so flexible you’ve probably been using it for years without knowing it, many scripts use it because it is a boilerplate method of grabbing files, it will even automatically retry under certain circumstances…"

"Many computer users tend to equate Microsoft with evil, but that is a mistake.

"...The leading software project in the open source radio world is called GNU Radio. GNU refers to a software movement started in the 70s by a proto-hippie-geek by the name of Richard Stallman. Stallman was the first software developer to publicly espouse the "free love" approach to software copyrights that lead to such modern marvels as Linux.

RMS: "I can’t foretell the future because it depends on you, and on your readers. The more users come to value freedom, and think as citizens, the more they will insist on freedom-respecting software. But if they continue to think as consumers, valuing short-term convenience at the expense of freedom, then the future of freedom will be at the mercy of practical side issues."