On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:38:15 -0500 (CDT), "Mike Miller" <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> said: > > Did he actually write somewhere that it was "evil." I think I can find > pages where he has written that DRM is evil. I think he says that there > are evil effects of proprietary software but I don't think he would say > that it is evil to produce software with a proprietary license. I could > easily be wrong though. Also, I wouldn't take the word "evil" too > seriously because it is often used as a loose shorthand for "something > that isn't good for us." "Proprietary software is evil because it attacks freedom and social solidarity." --Transcript of Richard Stallman at the 5th international GPLv3 conference; 21st November 2006