Microsoft, for example, argues that the proprietary model gives users the rights they need while creating incentives that have made the United States a global software leader, while Richard Stallman - the creator of the GNU General Public License and the author of a number of free software programs - confirmed that proprietary licensing allows companies software for software "hoarding" they have to share. The Software License Unveiled, Douglas Phillips saw both extremes and the question of how to breed but the license terms largely unread affect access to software, one of the economic resources of the most valuable.