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The purpose of a company is profit, but profit can be made in various ways. Some methods respect the freedom and well-being of others, while some trample other people's rights and lives. When the executives of a company have no principles or scruples to restrain them, it is only natural that they will try the latter methods. It is natural, but that is not an excuse. To accept selfishness as an all-purpose excuse for mistreating others is to reject the whole idea of right and wrong.
-- Richard Stallman "RMS: why open source needs Free Software's ideals" The Register 15/09/2002 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27121.html
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