Z:gnu-www-ja-when free software isnt practically better--bfe571-Richard Stallman speaks to thi/en

Richard Stallman speaks to this in his article on Why Open Source Misses the Point when he explains, &ldquo;The idea of open source is that allowing users to change and redistribute the software will make it more powerful and reliable. But this is not guaranteed. Developers of proprietary software are not necessarily incompetent. Sometimes they produce a program that is powerful and reliable, even though it does not respect the users' freedom.&rdquo;