Arrangements to make people pay for using a program, including licensing of copies, always incur a tremendous cost to society through the cumbersome mechanisms necessary to figure out how much (that is, which programs) a person must pay for. And only a police state can force everyone to obey them.
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Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
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Extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive because the restrictions reduce the amount and the ways that the program can be used. This reduces the amount of wealth that humanity derives from the program.
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Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
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People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
            ----+- Richard Stallman -+----
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To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.
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Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.
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While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
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