Free Software Magazine: The Social Implications of Free Software

“If you’re new to it, free software appears to be tough to shift
to. It also tends to be supported by a smaller pool of techies, and
has something of a steep initial learning-curve. So why shift at
all? In any case, you can easily make do with illegally-copied
proprietary software… right?

“Wrong! That’s a lazy way of looking at things. It’s also an
outdated approach, which goes back just three decades or so, when
proprietary–you can’t copy it, you can’t share it–software became
the norm…”

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