Free Software is not a gift

• A gift is based on a personal relationship

  May exist before and/or after a gift

  • For most people Free Software is anonymous as a product can be

• A gift often creates an obligation

  • Taking Free Software creates no obligations

• Producers of Free Software do not think in terms of gift

  If at all then as a gift to mankind

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