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To the extent that the Underground Railroad inhibits would-be slave-owners from making money, it's anti-freedom.

Note that I'm quite emphatically not saying these are exactly the same thing, but pointing out by example that there are other factors that can clearly be far more important.



It's not clear at all what you are trying to say. If you think there are other more important factors, why don't you just say what they are?


There are some obvious important factors - most importantly the ability to extend my software (or pay others to do so) and to thereby ensure continued interoperability.


Why are these more important than the ability for developers to make money?


In general, because an increasing amount of our lives are dependent on software and there are far more users than developers.

Note crucially that we're not talking about all ability to make money (as we would be with Non-Commercial clauses); we're talking about the difference between the ability to earn money based on copyleft code (demonstrably non-zero) versus non-copyleft code (probably more).




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