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| | Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation |
 | | People used to say to me, "If the software's free, then nobody will get paid to work on it, so why should anybody work on it?" Well, of course, they were confusing the two meanings of free, so their reasoning was based on a misunderstanding. |
 | | And it also belies what Microsoft says when they say the GNU GPL is bad, because it makes it harder for them to raise capital to develop nonfree software and take our free software and put our code into their programs that they won't share with us. |
 | | Some of it might be advertising, which is partly a contribution, even if it's partly wrong. |
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