A selection of quotes from Eben Moglen, chief counsel of the Free Software Foundation, selected by Idealog:

On software for social change:

“Infrastructure improvement has a tendency to improve matters for the poor more rapidly than other forms of economic development. … Software is creating roadways that bring people who have been far from the center of human social life to the center of social life.”

On Microsoft:

“In this neighborhood at this moment, the richest and most deeply funded monopoly in the history of the world is beginning to fail. … Plus or minus the couple more years left before Microsoft fails entirely, we have now proven either the adequacy or the final superiority in crass economic terms of the way we make things.”

On open source:

“The magic of this technology is that it can be used for the great ideal of capitalist distribution: never actually give anybody anything … just as it can be used for our fundamental purpose which is always give everybody everything.”