"...The Free Software Movement of Karnataka addresses issues related to the project from the perspective of the Free Software Movement. Following is an editorial published in a newsletter of the FSMK..."

Lawrence Lessig: « These questions have been the challenge of Stallman's life.Through his works and his words, he has pushed us to see the importance of keeping code “free.” Not free in the sense that code writers don't get paid, but free in the sense that the control coders build be transparent to all, and tha

«...On this subject, I had an interesting email conversation with Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, who differentiated for me the difference between "open source" and "free software," ...» -- Free Software, Free Society: Why Barack Obama should support the Free Software Movement

"...On this page we list user groups that are centered on variations of the GNU operating system [...] We also do not list groups which focus on ‘open source’, since we are not part of the open source movement, but rather the

«...The Free Software movement is an example of an emergent movement with anarchist characteristics.

"Will he build a Free Society or a walled-garden of control? ..." -- Change.org - Ideas for Changing America: Support the Free Software Movement

RMS: «...Every school must migrate to Free Software, and I call on you, those of you who are faculty, or staff, or students of this University, to work together to bring about the migration of this University to Free Software, completely to Free Software, within a few y

"...copyleft is a tool designed to spread freedom in software, at any cost. The FSF, which wrote the GNU and Affero licenses, has the goal to make all software free as in freedom. Companies are ‘free’ to join the revolution, or to look somewhere else for their needs.

"...«Piracy,» Stallman said during his public speech in Bangalore on Saturday, «is totally wrong, because it is wrong to attack ships on sail.» If the person posing the question happens to get smarter and asks specifically about software and music piracy, Stallman gave an even better answer: «Pirates never attack ships with software and music, they do it with guns.» ..." --