So are legal documents, laws and constitutions [work products].

Of course they are! Do these too have desires to be free?

DrJ would be out of his element at /.

You are right. I have no patience for script kiddies, very few of whom have had to meet a payroll and who ascribe computer code with human desires.

I too struggled with [the] notion that code wants to be free. It is a foreign concept to those whose business models … are primarily financially focused.

Every business model is “financially focused.” Let me guess, you are one of the many who hawked dogfood.com. I have heard so many of those business plans set forth by those who claimed that eyeballs are all that matter. The revenue model was of no importance. Those are all bankrupt now.

(Written from a computer running FreeBSD 6.3.)