A passage from Augustine's de Doctrina Christiana has been seen as a fore-runner of the free software movement, as it expressed the philosophy that knowledge, unlike physical possessions, must be freely shared: 'For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.'
2005-04-07
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