On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:44 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Elvedin Trnjanin wrote: > > > I was under the impression that non-free software was immoral because > > anything that takes away your rights is considered immoral. Doesn't > > matter if you agree to it, it's just a matter-of-fact. > > > > Is that not so? > But non-free software doesn't take away your rights. It just protects the rights of others (the same rights you have when you write software, or a novel, or paint a picture). Software is speech, it is treated by the law as speech, and it comes under the same protection as speech. I've yet to read or hear any argument as to how my rights are violated by the use of closed source software. Saying so is like saying that listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall takes away my rights because I can't claim it as my own or play their music on my own recording. If you do not agree to the terms of the EULA then you have the FREEDOM to not use the product. Cheers, benjamin