Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--e1b7fa-Now I saw the unique world of/en

Now I saw the unique world of the AI lab destroyed, and I saw that selling software was an intrinsic part of what had destroyed it, and I saw also, as I explained before, how you need to have free software in order to have a community like that. But then thinking about it more, I realized all these ways in which hoarding software hurts all of society, most specially by pressuring people to sell out their neighbors and causing social decay. The same spirit that leads people to watch while somebody in the street is getting stabbed and not tell anyone. The spirit that we can see so many companies all around us displaying all the time. And it was clear to me I had a choice, I could become part of that world and feel unhappy about what I was doing with my life, or I could decide to fight it. So I decided to fight it. I've dedicated my career to try to rebuild the software sharing community, to trying to put an end to the phenomenon of hoarding generally useful information. And the GNU system is a means to this end. It is a technical means to a social end. With the GNU system, I hope to vaccinate the users against the threat of the software hoarders.