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Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video] by afarrell on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:59AM (#14978123)
There is indeed a set of contracts with the property that banning them makes people more free. This set is non-empty.

But the argument still needs to be made that proprietary software licences are part of that set.

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Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video] by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:01AM (#14978135)
Sure, but (a) RMS actually does make that argument and (b) he AFAIK doesn't actually call for making proprietary software illegal, but just tries to convince people to not produce, endorse, or use it.
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Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video] by afarrell on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:05AM (#14978152)
Ah, then someone should reply to the top-level comment with a link to where RMS makes that argument.
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