4 Sep
2003
4 Sep
'03
2:56 a.m.
RMS is a Mahatma for the world. GNU Freedom may become the mother of all freedoms.
Please don't give me personally more admiration than I have earned. I can hardly compare with Gandhi, neither in courage nor (as yet) in results.
The freedom to share and change software, in and of itself, is less directly important to society than other freedoms that we are all aware of. At the same time, as society becomes increasingly dependent on computer use, it may be that we need freedom in using software if we are to preserve our other freedoms.