Thread: Makes me glad my reader is not connected
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Old 07-23-2009, 09:42 PM   #249
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Originally Posted by carld View Post
Actually some people claim that software (and by extension all creative effort) should always be free, and if we pay (reward) people for writing programs we should also punish them for not writing programs.

Edit: Here's the quote from Richard Stallman, I was close.

"If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs."
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