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Story: My response to Richard Stallman

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Yes, you are free to change your Schwinn. You are also free to create new software for Windows. Unfortunately, Schwinn might not be the best example, since bikes tend to be made from off the shelf parts, and there really isn't much that isn't obvious about it. Perhaps an advanced mountain bike has some special shock absorbers, and you don't get with the instruction manual details of how they made those shock absorbers. You could reverse engineer it, but you could do the same with proprietary software.

A better example is cold syrup, or a cake mix you buy in the store. You get "ingredients" on the box, but they don't give you the recipe. In other words, they don't tell you how to compete with them. You don't get the "schematics."

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