> To Stallman, every user has the right to modify and redistribute software, just like they have the right to modify and resell any other tool they use. I gues

> To Stallman, every user has the right to modify and redistribute software, just like they have the right to modify and resell any other tool they use. I guess we should then be permitted to modify and resell a book, a movie, or anything else that's the output of one's thoughts? If that's where the argument ended, I would simply say "well ok" and move on, but Stallman goes beyond that. He wants to dictate what terms I would put around any application I provide as a product, simply because it's in the realm of software. As if software is this magical land where I have no say in anything I produce. Framing this industry as somehow different based on a simplistic parallel of hard goods = soft goods is disingenuous.