"...free software will prove strongly resistant to state interference. Because virtually everyone associated with a free software project is a volunteer, the state cannot easily compel them to participate in tax and regulatory schemes. [...] But even better, free software is likely to prove extremely resistant to state efforts to build privacy-violating features into software systems..."
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can.axis
16 years 22 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago
Free Software, Free Society
It seems the author misses the point, free software can be selled and be subject to taxes... Free software is about freedom, not price; it's a political and social movement which frees us from proprietary software and business power.. -- http://www.gnupress.org/book13.html