Software as a social concern

Our society teaches people to judge programs solely based on practical convenience. To ask: - How easy to use is it? - How reliable? - How efficient? - What does it cost? And to ignore more important, deeper questions, like: - If I use this program, what does it do to my freedom? - What does it do to my community? The mere fact that people are using a non-free program is a social problem. – Richard Stallman