For those who are already getting bored with these emails, you should note that this series on copyright is only the beginning. There are others between Stallman and me on the formation of a company by free developers, of free developers, for a free world that will follow this series. We should all see by now where closed code will take us with things like Carnivore, if we don't act soon. Unfortunately, it will take over a month to publish all the emails and unveil the plan. Though some of the emails are boring, they are necessary, because proprietary must be stopped.
Human nature is complex and includes many potentials, some good and some bad.
Part of the idea of changing society is to set up situations so that they encourage and facilitate the better aspects of human nature. For example, human nature today is no different from what it was 15 years ago, but programmers today are much more likely to make their work free software than they were then. Proprietary software is a scheme to divide and maltreat other people. It means doing wrong to others. We should not tolerate that.