I partly agree with the underlying message that people should take charge and solve problems, rather than just cast blame on others. |
I'm always happy when I'm protesting. |
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. |
If you focus your mind on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you will find the strength to do it. |
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. |
One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor -- but in the software world this is piracy. To prevent this, the U.S. is putting in place practices which are like those in the former Soviet Union -- computerized guards, propaganda in favor of licensing, rewards for informing on co-workers, and penalties which make distributing software as serious a crime as armed robbery. |
part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace. |
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. |
The free world welcomes Sun's decision to use the Free Software Foundation's GPL. |
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. |
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. |
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness. |
The world has sprung very nasty threats on us and our software. |
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive. |
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. |