Constitution and legal tradition reject this view copyright is not a natural right, but an artificial government-imposed monopoly that limits the users’ natural right to copy.' -rms (If this were a natural right, then no matter how much harm it does to the public, we could not object.) Interestingly, the U.S. 'One assumption is that software companies have an unquestionable natural right to own software and thus have power over all its users. People give rms a hard time for going on about free software, but he saw this coming. This is definitely true with regard to applications and services. Regardless of whether you like Flash, this should be yet another ominous warning that you do not really own your computer anymore.
