By doing so, we sacrifice our own freedom for convenience. It is important to understand the implications of sacrificing freedom and what implications it might cause to the ongoing development of free alternatives. We have to work to teach those who join us that not only should they join us to maximize their profits, but also to contribute to the world and to help build a free software sharing community. Maximizing profits from free software is worthwhile and I encourage anyone with the opportunity to do so, but the money itself is not likely to stick around unless some of it is invested back into the community that made the profit possible in the first place. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent.
Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evilminded rulers.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal and wellmeaning but without understanding.