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Somebody call RMS

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Also on that day: "If you support developers who don't patent, one of the best things you can do is give them credit for their inventions, and do this carefully and completely. Almost all creative people want recognition for the risks they take. When they are generous with their ideas and don't patent them, extra recognition is a good idea. This is something positive everyone can do to encourage generosity from developers."

Man, how open source does this sound? Though there's always this weird Field Guide to the Commercial Developer tone in there. Besides, what, that money that we're supposed to cheerfully fork over to hard-working commercial (read proprietary) developers isn't recognition enough? I also have to toothpick up their fragile egos?