Here's my contribution. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227753 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227753 Key points: It might be more accurate to call

Here's my contribution. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227753 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227753 Key points: It might be more accurate to call it "freed" software. The goal of the GPL is to uncage domesticated software and let it roam wild forever, never collared again. The people who distribute software in this fashion won't let you put it back in the zoo. And again, FSF is not saying that users are free to do what they want. You are not free, according to them. They say that software is free, in the sense of the software freedoms. That sentence essentially would only parse to $0 before Stallman came along.