An ex-smoker argues against New Zealand's plan to make it illegal to buy tobacco.

I never intentionally smoked tobacco, because I saw from my grandfather when I was 9 years old that tobacco means death. I wish that tobacco would cease to exist. But making it a crime is a foolish reaction to the problem.

I apply this principle to nonfree software also. It is unjust and nasty, and should not exist. But we should not make nonfree software as such illegal.

I do think we should make malicious functionalities illegal.