Arizona Technology Expo - Why is free software superior?

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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Arizona Technology Expo - Why is free software superior?
<Please add to the list and we will discuss it as a group>
1. Vulnerabilities are fixed relatively quickly.

2. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute,
study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four
kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:

Part of me wants to discuss mass distribution of software and how that might
kill the incentive for companies to pay their programmers to produce useful
software and how it would do that for the gaming industry.

Does this arouse any other discussion from the floor? If not we shall move
on to :

3.