The Paradise of Scarcity

Gates and stallman built their life's work on the back of copyright law. Both believed that the distribution of soffea was a trade exchange, one that had to be bound by certain explicit debt obligations. Neither gates nor stallmen were unique in their seal to control the terms under which dher soffer wis used and distributeed. The fact that these arch enemies should share some common ideological base really shouldn't be that much of a surprise.