“Ever since I heard of the GPL while a graduate student more
than 10 years ago I’ve been a crusader for software freedom. I am
motivated by a desire to live in a world in which democracy and
social justice are the birthrights of all people, and convinced
that the best way to bring this about is for people to have direct
control over the economic and social forces that effect them. Since
the world around us is increasingly dominated by information
technology and the software that runs it, democracy and software
freedom go hand in hand.“My crusade began in a high school mathematics/computer science
classroom, in which it is still largely rooted…”