Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-nyu-2001-transcript--a28187-There are lots of people who d/en

There are lots of people who don't appreciate the ideals of freedom. And they'd be very glad to take the work that we have done, and use it to get a head start in distributing a non-free program and tempting people to give up their freedom. And the result would be &mdash; you know, if we let people do that &mdash; that we would be developing these free programs, and we'd constantly have to compete with improved versions of our own programs. That's no fun.