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To: slickeroo
People should be free to use software in ways that are socially useful.

Why do I get the feeling that this website wouldn't be considered a "Socially Useful" use of software?

When a program has an owner, the users lose freedom to control part of their own lives.

When my neighbor's car has an owner, I lose freedom to control part of my life. Specifically, that part where I take my neighbor's car, drive it around and leave it in his driveway with an empty gas tank.

There is room for both free software and paid software. But don't force everyone else to give away their labor for free just because you don't value their work, Stallman.

20 posted on 03/09/2007 11:47:17 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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To: KarlInOhio
There is room for both free software and paid software. But don't force everyone else to give away their labor for free just because you don't value their work, Stallman.

A reasonable point of view. If people wishes to contribute their labor to free software, more power to them. (I frequently use software from the FSF.) At the same time, there is nothing immoral about private property, be it tangible property or intellectual property.

31 posted on 03/09/2007 12:33:15 PM PST by Logophile
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