The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
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A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
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Proprietary software is an injustice.
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Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
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If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
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