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A comment on Mark Pilgrim’s Hello Darkness My Old Friend:

“No one cares about freedoms for the same reason that no one cares about oxygen. As long as they’re there, why bother? Freedom zero is so abstract to most people that no one even thinks about it, let alone care. It’s like the string theory. It’s only when things are taken away that there’s reason to get upset.” -Jesper

For those who are unfamiliar, Freedom 0 is one of four freedoms listed in the Free Software Definition:

“The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.”