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Oh, I think there might have been some expectation on Stallman's part of doing injury to capitalism.
by neutronicus 6y ago
Oh, I think there might have been some expectation on Stallman's part of doing injury to capitalism.
- tremon 6y agoNo, expressly not, except maybe to the (strictly American) capitalist conception that monopolies are a good thing. When you take the original capitalist idea that says monopolies should be avoided because they distort the free market, Free Software is actually very capitalist: it removes the stranglehold that the original manufacturer has on the software after initial sale, thereby ensuring that market power doesn't concentrate in one entity.