"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." I suppose it's too much to ask for him to realize that if you turn the phone off and remove the battery... it can no longer function as a tracking/surveillance device. And if you want to use it, all you'll have to do is put the battery back in and power it up.