c0d3h4x0r's Journal: Nonsense alert: "Information wants to be free!"

Many FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) zealots like to spout off the old mantra, "Information wants to be free." Nonsense. Information doesn't want anything; people do. "People want information to be free" would be a slightly more accurate statement.

Still, that's not even close to accurate. Not all people want all information to be free. Most people want at least some information to be controlled or restricted. (Think about people's desire for privacy, for example).

So the statement needs to be further refined: "A minority of people want all information to be free, while most people want some information to be non-free." Sure, it doesn't have a nice ring to it, but at least it's actually true.