free as in loaves and fish

Now we live in a different world. For the first time, all the basic knowledge, all the refined physics, all the deep mathematics, everything of beauty in music, in the visual arts, in literature, all of the video arts of the 20th Century, all can be given to everybody everywhere at essentially no additional cost beyond the cost required to make the first copy.

And so we face, in the 21st Century, a very basic moral question: If you could make as many loaves of bread as it took to feed the world by baking one loaf and pressing a button, how could you justify charging more for bread than the poorest people could afford to pay?

-- Eben Moglen, in speech, Software and Community in the Early 21st Century, presented at Plone Conference 2006

Seen at WorldChanging.com : Software and Community in the Early 21st Century.