Programmers

Programmers are the worst losers in the whole world.  They are
humanity's most useless members.

Unable to do anything since their childhood because of their black
soul and dull conscience they start digging the memory of a primitive
device --- personal computer --- their parents bought to them out of
pity.  These diggings (also called "programming"), which are in fact
nothing but typing meaningless strings of symbols solely to relieve
the pain in an empty and worthless soul, induce the feeling of
euphoria, which, however, doesn't last for very long, and soon it
makes space for more familiar loneliness, tastelessness and
senselessness of existence; such feelings can only appear in a dry and
talentless soul, in a soul can only see emptiness, despair and
unwillingness to live, limited by perishing and ash-like body.

>>47
You call these people ‘slaves’, as if to poke a hole in our analogies. Yet we never claimed that these people are slaves — indeed, the GPL is not intended to protect software developers¹ — how can they be slaves if they would divide and subjugate others through proprietary software? Surely they would be better labelled as ‘slave traders’ — it is their unfortunate users who would be slaves.

As I see it, there is a somewhat controversial choice between
 • granting all users the central freedoms² _{(adding restrictions to what developers may do in the process)}
 • allowing software developers to build and distribute derivative software freely _{(possibly denying users the central freedoms)}
GPL advocates choose the former, judging the risk of users being denied the central freedoms to be too high. BSD advocates presumably value something else more highly than the central freedoms. Perhaps they think the users should have the choice to decide³.

Maybe you'll still think me insane (or just idealistic), maybe you'll say “YHBT LOL I TROL U”, but still I hope this helps you better understand my viewpoint.

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_{> ¹In this freedom, it is the user's purpose that matters, not the developer's purpose²
² http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
³ But really, the GPL doesn't restrict the user's choice too much here — the user may still choose proprietary software, just not proprietary software that is derived from free software.}