Maybe you should use the rest of that quote:

Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ... That tension will not go away

And, information doesn't want anything. Information is not sentient; it has no wants, no desires, and no feelings. Stop anthropomorphizing it.

Saying information wants to be free is like saying a dream wants to be real. Dreams do not wish to be real, rather the dreamer wishes the dream to be real or not.

We don't have a manned spaceflight program anymore, so why bother with it? We should just slide into insignificance the way the current plan has us doing?

When you opinion is needed, I am sure someone will beat the shit out of your head to see what it is.

Here is an example of your two-faced hypocrisy: According to you share means to make a copy of something and give the copy away rather than to let someone else use your copy. Then you complain that the other words I listed have two meanings. To you, share has two meanings as well. So stop whining, you little bitch.

So, you don't believe the copyright holder is entitled to anything. So you have no problem if people violate the GPL right? After all, if the copyright holder isn't entitled to anything, then FLOSS supporters are not entitled to anything either.

Gnome has two important faces. From the user's perspective, it is an integrated desktop environment and application suite.
From the announcement of KDEAn integrated Desktop Environment for the Unix Operating SystemYou were saying, asshole?

Actually, it is you and RMS who are claiming to know the truth, specifically the superiority of FLOSS.

Oh, please, do you have to keep lying? Your mind was made up and will never change because you are too busy drinking the koolaid of RMS. Apparently the only thing that constitutes a good case to you is "It is better to use a crappy tool that I consider free rather than a good tool that will do the job better and easier but I don't consider free." RMS' entire philosophy is based on his own selfishness. He wants something under his terms and only his terms and if he can't have it that way, it is evil and must be denigrated and destroyed. He goes around preaching his gospel to the likes of you, who are too stupid to see what it really is. Then you try to argue how much better FLOSS is and when confronted with the truth, try to change the discussion. You make an analogy and when it shown to be false, you say "That is not what I said". You say something, and when proven wrong you say "That is not what I meant." You point to the handful of moderately successful FLOSS projects, which are invariably backed by corporate interests, as proof that all FLOSS is great and wonderful. And, when it is pointed out that the rest of the FLOSS projects are a vast smoking ruin that no average user would want to actually use, you act as though that doesn't matter. Face it, skippy, you are just a brainwashed fool for whom there would never be enough evidence. For you FLOSS is a religion and you have blind faith in it.

Oh, so what it is called matters. Kind of like it is called the Theory of Gravity so it isn't really scientific fact. I guess when you dial a phone number, you are using an actual dial, yes? And, when you take a shit, you bring a turd back with you. And, when you surf the web, a board, water and waves are involved, yes?

"Creators create"? Hmm, interesting idea. So, when you make an unauthorized copy of a song, you send a dollar to the group who performed it, yes? Or, to the person or people who wrote the song and sold it? Or, to the person who mixed it? Or, to the person who paid for it to be recorded?

It is an example of how you don't even know your own argument, which is never pedantic and is very relevant.

Off hand, no I do not know the numbers, but I do know that every single router used in the telecoms I have worked for ran IOS or some other proprietary OS. None of them ran Linux. And, I know that every major ATM manufacturer uses embedded Windows. In fact, it is one of those things people like to post, ATMs and digital billboards with blue screens.

If GIMP is not a PS replacement, why does it try to copy the PS look and feel? Their actions speak for themselves.

I did not use an ambiguous term. I used the term used by both GNOME and KDE. You don't like it, take it up with them. And, it is not my fault you are not intelligent enough to determine the meaning of an acronym from it's use. Perhaps you should actually learn about computers instead of asking me to dumb things down for you.

Yes, you would rather be true to your rather maintain your false religious belief rather than admit the truth. You must be a good theist, tenaciously holding onto falsehoods and stupidity rather than facing reality. You don't care if you go down just as long as you don't admit anyone else is right. That is why you are a stupid asshole.

What are you, 12? Or don't you believe in free speech? Oh, and while you are at it, please show me where in the mod it says "-1 bad language"

Now, piss off, you oppressive piece of shit.

So, what you are saying is that you must make a copy of an idea in order to "share" the idea, yes? So, you are not actually sharing the idea as much as you are making a copy of the idea and giving to someone else for free, yes? Yes, I thought so.

ZeroPaid is an anti-copyright, anti-**AA blog.

No, you stated that content creators' profits should be down if "sharing" was a problem. Then, you linked to a article about artists making more money. But, the article said that artists are making more money from live shows even as recording profits fall. And, while the artist is making the content, they are doing so for hire. The real "content creator" is the record label that pays the artists to make and record the content and provides the money for the artist to go on tour. What about the copyright holder of the songs? You know, the guys who are actually selling the recorded music and providing the backing for the tours? You know, the people who are the members of the RIAA? How are they doing? Last I heard, recorded music sales are down yet again.

Wikipedia is not software. MediaWiki is software. Get your facts straight, dumbass. Geez, how stupid can you get? It says it on the link YOU provided.

Tell you what you do, go out and ask 1,000 random people using Android if Android is open source and I bet almost every response will be "What is open source?" Do the same for Firefox and Chrome and I bet you get the same result. Chrome, by the way, is targeted at users of Google's services and is pushed by Google. And, both Firefox and Chrome are arguably better than IE. What does that say about my original statement which boils down to "Stop being jealous of the success of proprietary software. If FLOSS were actually better than proprietary software, people would use it and FLOSS would be successful."

As for those being "open source run by millions of people", how about those millions of ATMs, routers, switches, and other devices using embedded Windows, Cisco IOS, and other proprietary operating systems? What is the ratio of FLOSS used to proprietary used?

And, yes, you should list the "millions of crappy proprietary software", especially those that are commercial successes. Please list all the crappy proprietary software that claims to be a suitable replacement for Photoshop whose proponents whine about not being able to get people to use their crappy product instead of Photoshop. Then repeat that with every other successful proprietary product that RMS and his acolytes whine about.

IDEs, you know Integrated Desktop Environments. Are you really so stupid as to not know what those are? Maybe you have heard of KDE and GNOME. Yes? No? Are you really that much of a fucking idiot? I guess you are. Here, I will explain it to you. There are these things called computers that have something called a Graphical User Interface or GUI (pronounced gooey). The GUI is generally uses a "desktop and windows" concept managed by what is known as a desktop and/or window manager. Often, the manager is part of what is known as an Integrated Desktop Environment or IDE which provides an API and applications as well as the window management functions. On OS X for Apple, Darwin is the GUI and IDE. The Microsoft GUI/IDE is Windows. For Linux, the GUI is known as the X Window system and the most popular window managers are also IDEs. They are KDE (the K Desktop Environment) and GNOME (the GNU Network Object Model Environment). Now, on Linux, one does not have to use an IDE as there are a large number of window managers available including but not limited to Enlightenment, WindowMaker, FVWM, Fluxbox, and Metacity.

Now that I have schooled you, do you understand now, or are going to be a willfully ignorant fuck?

And, the religious group would control the content of the work. Nothing that the group deemed inappropriate would be allowed.

That is for businesses and the self-employed. One can easily not pay any income tax if one is an employee. All one has to do is file the proper W4 form.

Ah, so a computer program, song, or book is an "idea". OK. You don't need anything other than your head to have an idea, so you don't need a computer to share a program or song, yes?

I am supposed to believe a poll of "1,000 16- to 50-year-olds with internet access" commissioned by a politically biased group without knowing how the poll participants were chosen nor the questions asked? Would you accept a poll commissioned by RIAA with blind faith?

ZeroPaid as a source? Really? Do you have access to any non-biased sources? No? Didn't think so, you closed-minded fuck.

From your third link:

A new analysis of music industry revenue in Sweden confirms an earlier UK study that showed that artist income, mostly from live concerts, is growing even as revenue from recorded music has declined.

You are hoisted on your own petard, dumbass.
I saw what you are trying to do, but I am not going to let you do it. Forever? No. But, one can always go out and BUY more appropriate software. Just like when one outgrows one's bicycle, one can buy a new one or a motorcycle or a car. And, when that married couple has a kid and their two seat sports coup is no longer appropriate, they can buy a sedan, or a minivan. Tell, shithead, do you still wear the clothes you did 15 years ago? Did you alter them yourself or take them to a tailor to be modified? Or, did you BUY NEW ONES? Well, what was it, asshole?

I read your analogy, asshole. Did you? Here, let me help:

Let's assume you don't know enough to fix your own car. Do you think there are no benefits in having access to the internals of the car, making it possible to send it to any car repair shop versus having to send it to the original manufacturer and be subject to their monopoly?

Your analogy has the car as the software, not the computer. Now, if you don't know what you have already said, maybe you should shut the fuck up. Or, is it that you are trying to change your argument on the fly?

Wikipedia is software? No, it is a website whose articles are often biased and/or wrong. Android and WebOS are both Linux, are operating systems, and are almost exclusively run on proprietary hardware where loading a new OS is difficult at best. The same goes for all those embedded Linux devices, in which the user almost never interacts with the OS, but are in fact appliances. That leaves Chrome and FireFox. Even giving you every single item you listed, that is less than 1 in 500,000. So, there are over 500,000 FLOSS FAILURES, including Linux on the desktop, for every moderate success. Tell me, where is OOo in your list? How about GNUCash? How about GIMP? Oh, wait, none of those are really successes. Most of the users for GIMP would prefer to use Photoshop. Even FLOSS supporters don't like GNUCash. All I ever hear about OOo is how slow it is and how it has crappy compatibility with MS Office.

Oh, and don't think I haven't noticed how the two big IDEs for Linux are cheap, crappy knock-offs of Windows and Darwin.

Ok, so you believe that programming should pay minimum wage or less. Glad to know. Now, are you a professional programmer and what company do you work for?

Why is there a problem creating a copy? Because, then you are not sharing. When two people share something, a single thing is used by both. When creating a copy, two things are used by two people, that is not sharing. So, you have just admitted you are not sharing but copying. And, copying without the copyright holder's permission is illegal, whether or not making the copy is easy. The person who cares is the copyright holder whose livelihood depends on the creation distribution of said copies. Or, do you suggest that those who create should not be compensated? How long do you think people would continue to create works if they had to work full time doing something else to support themselves? Perhaps, they should resort to patronage, creating works solely at the whim of and for the use of a patron and whomever the patron dictates.

How much does it cost to higher a programmer?

So, you would do away with trade secrets too. Nice to know.

Who is going to pay for a modification when one can purchase something that works the way one wants?

And, what of the one who invents the wheel? How does the inventor of the wheel gets recompense for his time, effort, and materials used to create the wheel?

Your car analogy fails because we are talking software and not computers. Each component of a car would is the equivalent of a piece of software. So, when a computer breaks, you take it to a repair person who finds the problem and fixes it. This can be as simple as a "tune up" by cleaning out old files, registry entries, etc. It could be by replacing a broken component such as a hard drive, faulty ram, re-installing a corrupted program or removing malware. It could be something serious such as a bad motherboard, processor, or having to reinstall the operating system. Really, try to use a valid analogy because I have no problem pointing out your failures.

I see, so I should be able to call you an evil person because you do something I don't like and if you don't like it, you just don't have to read it and all is well, yes?

It stopped being giving his opinion when he and his acolytes started trying to duplicate the functionality of proprietary software and complaining when their inferior software failed to gain market share. If one makes an inferior product, one should not spend all one's time whining that one is losing and how everyone should be using one's, often admittedly, inferior product for ideological, and not practical, reasons. Either step up and provide a quality product or shut the fuck up and stop whining. Do the job and stop fucking crying because people want things that work, work well, are easy to use, and don't require hours of searching to get installed and running. Oh, and stop bitching that people want to use modern technologies and paradigms instead of the 40+ year old text terminal tech.

All of RMS' bitching about people using proprietary software just because it is more usable and effective definitely sounds like jealousy to me. As does his insistence that the capability and effectiveness of a tool should not be considered when one is choosing a tool, and by tool I mean software. He would rather use an inferior FLOSS product than a proprietary product? Fine, now shut the fuck up and the rest of us will use the best tool for the job.

So, should artists, authors, programmers, etc. not be paid for their work? Or, should they charge enough to live on per creation? Or, should they do something else to earn money and not create anything? Or, should they get a patron, as suggested below, and only create what they are told by their patron and have their works enjoyed only by those the patron chooses?