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To get an idea of what it's like to obstruct the use of a program, let's
imagine that we had a sandwich, that you could eat, and it wouldn't
be consumed. You could eat it, and another person could eat it, the
same sandwich, any number of times, and it would always remain just as
nourishing as originally.
The best thing to do, the thing that we ought to do with this sandwich is carry it around to the places where there are hungry people; bringing it to as many mouths as possible, so that it feeds as many people as possible. By all means, we should not have a price to eat from this sandwich, because then people would not afford to eat it, and it would be wasted. The program is like this sandwich, but even more so because it can be in many different places at once being eaten, used by different people one after the other. It is as if this sandwich was enough to feed everyone, everywhere, forever, and that were not allowed to happen, because someone believed he should own it. Richard M Stallman, 1986 - in his lecture to the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. |
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At Home with John and Debbie