Daniel Bricklin, whose biography appears in Chapter 12, did not patent (or copyright) his software, believing that software should not be proprietary. As a result he lost a great deal of possible...

Daniel Bricklin, whose biography appears in Chapter 12, did not patent (or copyright) his software, believing that software should not be proprietary. As a result he lost a great deal of possible royalties. Do you consider his actions to be visionary or naive? The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity that raises funds for work on the GNU Project. GNU software is free. Go to the Web and find out their philosophy. Compare GNU products with those of manufacturers such as Microsoft and Sun.