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Richard Stallman predicted this in 1997’s “The Right to Read”. Predictably rather than listen to him, software specialists discredited him. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

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stallman has been very very good at seeing what others would collectively do in the face of technological development. People shunned him, yet he was absolutely right

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