It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
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Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980)Bill Gates
If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.
Erik Naggum
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
Richard M. Stallman
The way that big software companies used to make software was hiring all the smart people, locking them in a room, and sliding pizza under the door, until they had written whatever needed writing. And then selling tickets to get into the room.
Simon Phipps
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
Richard M. Stallman
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