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Stallman : I don't put software or manuals in the public domain, and the reason is that I want to make sure that all the users get the freedom to share. I don't want anyone making an improved version of a program I wrote and distributing it as proprietary. I don't want that to ever be able to happen. I want to encourage the free improvements to these programs, and the best way to do that is to take away any temptation for a person to make improvements nonfree. Yes, a few of them will refrain from making improvements, but a lot of others will make the same improvements and they'll make them free.