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+<title>Comments on Roderick Long's Article
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<h2>Comments on Roderick Long's Article</h2>
+
+<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a></p>
+
+<blockquote><p>
+Roderick Long's article can be found
+<a href="http://freenation.org/a/f31l1.html">at this address</a>.
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<blockquote><p>
+The ideas of the free software movement are compatible with
+social-democratic (US liberal) views and with laissez-faire (US
+libertarian) views.
+</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>Free software is a matter of freedom. From our point of view,
+precisely which legal mechanism<sup><a href="#footnote">*</a></sup>
+is used to deny software users their
+freedom is just an implementation detail. Whether it is done with
+copyright, with contracts, or in some other way, it is wrong to deny
+the public the freedoms necessary to form a community and cooperate.
+This is why it is inaccurate to understand the Free Software Movement
+as specifically a matter of opposition to copyright on software. It
+is both more and less than that.</p>
+
+<p>However, you will often hear people of right-wing ideological
+persuasion argue in vague way that some general moral principle of
+property rights compels us to cede our freedom to a system of
+copyright, regardless of how this affects our way of life. The
+right-wing Libertarian counterargument, coming as it does from a group that
+regards property rights as the highest moral principle, is useful as a
+refutation. It shows that even if you adore property rights for
+physical objects, you are not compelled to accept copyright.</p>
+
+<p><sup id="footnote">* = Or technical mechanism, such as withholding the
+source code, or
+<a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">tivoization</a>.</sup></p>
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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