Billy Boy's Horror Scenario: Free Software Creates No Jobs and Brings No Tax Revenue to the State. In capitalism, it is customary to develop new software and use revenues from earlier sales to finance it. If software were freely available, programmers would perhaps have to do fieldwork during the day to earn their living - yeah, off to the fields with the blockhead, so he can finally learn what honest work is

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