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	johnkzin	2009-09-22 , 13:44
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Originally Posted by korbé

Normal people? normal people?

They are people like RMS that created the Free Software and their communities. And now that big multinationals have seized upon the concept, we should be imposed proprietary software, continue to contribute, keep quiet and suffer?

No one is imposting proprietary software upon you. Not even Microsoft.

And just as you are free to choose your platform, free to contribute to open projects, you are also free to contribute to non-open projects. That's what freedom really is: the freedom to choose. To choose whether or not you'll use open vs hybrid vs closed software; to choose whether or not you'll contribute/write open vs hybrid vs closed software. And just like you deserve those freedoms, so do other people. Including the people who run corporations of all sizes.

(and, really RMS is anything but normal, in both the good and bad implications of that statement)

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