you buy a book and you can’t re-author it
you buy a record and you can’t re-record it
you cannot pirate TV broadcasts
you cannot steal the fruits of the labors of authors, songwriters, tv writers.
what makes you entitled to steal the fruits of the labors of programmers?
It's talking about a different business model. No one is advocating theft, either.
Before Microsoft emerged, 99% of all software was free--as in in speech. You bought the software, you got the code also. MS changed that. The notion of closed-source software is a lot more recent than many seem to believe.