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"I just don't think that program[ming] and earn[ing] money [for] said work [is] immoral[.]"

This is a straw-man (unintentional, I presume). Even rms sold copies of Emacs once upon a time. No one objects to earning money for programming; they object to some of the restrictions we put in place in an attempt to make it easier to do that. If you don't agree that those restrictions are harmful, or think they are sufficiently outweighed by other factors, fine; but saying proprietary software is clearly fine simply because you don't object to programmers being paid is incomplete, confused, or dishonest.



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