User Freedom Quotes

To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.

We recognized from the beginning that we could create profiles for the bands and allow people to use the site any way they wanted to. We didn't stop people from promoting whatever they wanted to promote on MySpace.

The audience wants control. They want freedom.

It's important for people to have freedom to use whatever product they want. We have no problems with other people using other apps, so long as they keep using 'WhatsApp'.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

The user, not the ISP, should be the kingmaker of apps.

Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.

I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun.

What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves. Where we want to draw the line is where that feeling of being able to express oneself freely starts to infringe on someone feeling like they can express themselves.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

Access to Internet and content should be free for users which can get accommodated by advertisements.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.