> Sorry, but after reading the first line of the "About Free Software"
> section, "Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free
> to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. "  I cannot
> buy into this"movement"  The clear implication is they feel anything
> someone writes belongs to everyone, not the person who wrote it.  That

Where on earth are getting this from?  That sentence says FREE SOFTWARE is a matter of freedom.  Not ALL SOFTWARE is a matter of freedom.  It says people SHOULD be not people MUST.  They feel people should care about about a better society and write free software to help society.  I do not see where they say any author of software must abandon all their rights.

> is the very system that was tried and failed miserably in Easter
> Europe.  I do not and will not buy into it in the least.  It is the
> same mentality that drove me away from the Libertarian party in the
> political world.  Under that system, there is no incentive to improve
> or excel.

How can you compare software to a Totalitarian state of the Eastern Block?

-d