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But the analogy that was chosen was the analogy with books, which have copyright. And why was this choice made? Because the people that had the most to gain from making that particular choice were allowed to make the decision. The people who wrote the programs, not the people who used the programs, were allowed to decide, and they decided in a completely selfish fashion, and as a result they've turned the field of programming into an ugly one.