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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

— Barton Gellman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

— Bill Budge

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

— Anna Sui

If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money.

— Tim O'Reilly

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

— William Gibson

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

— Gianni Versace

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

— Annalee Newitz

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.

— Dennis Crowley

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

— Linus Torvalds

✗Opposing Perspectives

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

— Ken Olsen

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

— Dave Winer