Richard Stallman in Germany, 2005. (Image by Chris McKenna.)

Richard Stallman, who has always been an extremely independent voice, on Networkworld:

“‘I don’t have a cell phone. I won’t carry a cell phone,’ says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. ‘It’s Stalin’s dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I’m not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I’m not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop.”