The right to speak PGP is the right to speak Navajo.

Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content...

The secret of the GPL was taking a small quantum of risk and putting it on the distributors, … The total risk could be brought close to zero.

The big boys, corporations and governments, have far more reason to be interested and concerned this time.

We are trying to do what we can, in a limited way, to use the freedoms that our license gives us to actively work against the spread of DRM restrictions.

Version 2 has now been running for [nearly] 15 years without substantial modification. It [GPL 2] has successfully been used to go from a world in which free software was a very marginal community to...

Mr. Stallman made perfectly clear that his point of view is: It’s enough. It’s enough that the world has to pay attention to that (DRM) problem the way the world needed to pay attention to...

We’ll release the first discussion draft very late this year or very early next year. We’ll provide an extensive rationale as to why we made the choices we made and, in a limited way, why...

In the world we’re living in right now, no one can make small, cheap consumer electronics without our software. Our pre-market clout, our use as a raw material of manufacturing, is now large enough to...

No matter what your stand on software patents, and I oppose them, I call on developers to contribute to the OSDL patent commons project because there is strength in numbers and when individual contributions are...

The foundation believes that free software—that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users—is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as free and open scientific...

(Open-source firms) are engaging in substantial, active, prosperous business ? making money for their shareholders and helping investors.

The foundation believes that free software — that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users — is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as...

IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers,

The idea that we are anti-capitalist is a stupid idea. Free software is not anti-capitalist. Capitalism now makes a great deal of money out of free software and it voluntarily pays us money to make,...

Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer’s ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly...

We think it’s a serious problem; we don’t have a solution to recommend. We regard today’s draft as simply serving notice that this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.