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You're doing proprietary software! You want to control it, you want to be the only person able to make money off it, and you magnanimously allow others to have the source under terms forbidding them from threatening your monopolies.

I know we all have to eat; I'm not a zealot who thinks all software should be open either. But I don't see how developers exercising a monopoly in order to extract rent is software freedom. I just want some rectification of names.



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