"...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
15 years 50 weeks 1 day 14 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