Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--b90d4e-Right now the hoarders essenti/en

Right now the hoarders essentially claims the power to render a person's computer useless. There used to be people in the US, most commonly about fifty years ago, they were in the Mafia, they would go up to stores and bars, especially bars when bars were illegal of course. They would go up and say: &ldquo;A lot of places around here have been burning down lately. You wouldn't want your place to burn down, would you? Well we can protect you from fires, you just have to pay us a thousand dollars a month, and we'll make sure you don't have a fire here&rdquo;. And this was called &ldquo;the protection racket&rdquo;. Now we have something where a person says &ldquo;You got a nice computer there, and you've got some programs there that you're using. Well, if you don't want those programs to disappear, if you don't want the police to come after you, you better pay me a thousand dollars, and I'll give you a copy of this program with a license&rdquo;, and this is called &ldquo;the software protection racket&rdquo;.