Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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Did you read it, he didn't say anything rare or false. It's largely common knowledge and all true. If you can't see something inately wrong with licensed software you haven't read much about the power it gives software companies.
The article isn't really against closed source, it's against restrictive licensing. I don't see your problem with it, it's quite informative and well written. Even a closed source advocate should appreciate the idea of actually buying a copy of software which you can use to it's fullest extent (even it it's a binary you can't modify).