If you have not read “Lawrence Lessig’s”:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html speech, now is the time to. I has been a real eye opener for me and has made me realize that Free Software and OSS is more than just low-cost, high quality code….

h1. It is a way of life

Closed source and proprietary anything defeats competition. For a business this is good but as a society this is terrible. What is to become of us if all the means of innovation are destroyed?

Personally, I have learned more from reading and using Free Software than anything in my $30,000 college term. So I ask myself, and everyone around to please do what they can to stop this evil plague that is covering our society. Don’t know how? “Start Here with the EFF”:http://www.eff.org/, I know I am.

Eric Davis