Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.

"Einstein need not wait for an apple to fall"...That is the essence of Open Source Software..

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.