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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>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
-<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>
+<div class="introduction"><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>
+libertarian&#8239;<a href="#ft1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>) views.
+</p></div>
<p>Free software is a matter of freedom. From our point of view,
-precisely which legal mechanism<sup><a href="#footnote">*</a></sup>
+precisely which legal mechanism&#8239;<sup><a href="#ft2">[2]</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
+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>
@@ -38,13 +41,22 @@ 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
+<div class="infobox">
+<hr />
+<ol>
+<li id="ft1">Roderick T. Long, &ldquo;The Libertarian Case Against
+Intellectual Property Rights&rdquo; at <a
+href="http://freenation.org/a/f31l1.html">freenation.org</a>, 1995.</li>
+<li id="ft2">&hellip; or technical mechanism, such as withholding the
source code, or
-<a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">tivoization</a>.</sup></p>
+<a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">tivoization</a>.</li>
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<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
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to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
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@@ -89,8 +101,7 @@ of this article.</p>
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-Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
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