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I'm a free information radical. I have spent most of my career publishing open-source code and building open-information systems. I grew up getting access to knowledge that I never would've otherwise had because of the Internet. The past 5 years have accelerated it. I think the future is bright.

Ummm….stealing IP is wrong, no different than stealing anything else. Right now the tech barons are trying to convert the largest theft of IP in history into trillions for themselves.

Amazing the overlap between the "RIAA and MPAA are evil. Free Aaron Swartz. Information wants to be free. Download Limewire" etc people, and the new "Piracy is theft. Copyright violaters should be imprisoned" groups.

You’re right. Sam Altman and Elon Musk need more money.

Why isn’t Cloudflare free, Matt? I’ll answer that for you: well, if it was, Matt wouldn’t get paid any money. You’re an amazing IP freedom advocate: walking the walk…amirite, bud?

Great example to choose there. Cloudflare gives away far more free services than any comparable business. Most users never pay a penny. But free as in freedom is a different meaning from free as in charge. Every piece of software I write is open source and freely available to anyone.

Serious own goal there. something like 6x more free than paid.