Crossword-Solution: NAPSTER 7 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Still, the level of interest in free software during my last visit was profound." The conversation shifts to Napster, the San Mateo, California software company, which has become something of a media cause cÈlËbre in recent months.

Although based on proprietary software, the Napster system draws inspiration from the long-held Stallman contention that once a work enters the digital realm-in other words, once making a copy is less a matter of duplicating sounds or duplicating atoms and more a matter of duplicating information-the natural human impulse to share a work becomes harder to restrict.

Rather than impose additional restrictions, Napster execs have decided to take advantage of the impulse.

The sudden success of the Napster model has put the fear in traditional record companies, with good reason.

Still, Stallman does admit to learning a thing or two from the social side of the Napster phenomenon.