Eben Moglen

From Freeing the Mind by Eben Moglen:

Moglen's corollary to Faraday's Law says, wrap the Internet around every brain on the planet; spin the planet. Software flows in the network. It is wrong to ask, ``What is the incentive for people to create?'' It's an emergent property of connected human minds that they do create. The forms in which they create, like the evolution of spoken and written language, like the disposition of memes, cultural forms, patterns of pottery, shapes of musical endeavor, and so on, are structural characteristics of the human mind. We are a social species, and we create together; that's our nature.

Don't you just hate it when someone who represents a contrarian view to your own says something interesting, something you agree with, something that takes you aback for its eloquent statement of the greatest attribute of humanity?

Damn, and I really can't stand those GPL weenies...