Z:gnu-www-ja-2001-09-24-CPI--05014b-Tony Stanco, Esq., Founder of/en

Tony Stanco, Esq., Founder of FreeDevelopers.net and Senior Policy Analyst of the Cyberspace Policy Institute says, &ldquo;The moral question between Free and proprietary software ultimately revolves around this issue: Is software more like law? (Which ought to be Free and open to public inspection, so that the public can participate in the formation of the social contract by which they will be governed). Or is it more like literature? (Which has been traditionally viewed as the creator's private property). It's increasingly clear that with the Internet, software has begun to supplement the traditional function of law and that digital machines are fast becoming a nonhuman, cyberpolice force watching and directing everything people do.