Z:gnu-www-ja-byte-interview--cabe90-=3Cstrong=3EStallman=3C/strong=3E: Or/en

Stallman : Or buying a house&mdash;what would it be like if the only person who could ever fix problems with your house was the contractor who built it originally? That is the kind of imposition that's involved in proprietary software. People tell me about a problem that happens in Unix. Because manufacturers sell improved versions of Unix, they tend to collect fixes and not give them out except in binaries. The result is that the bugs don't really get fixed.