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Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> I've always heard it as "Information wants to be free". I think
> "Data are capable" sounds horrible; it's a mass noun.

Originally "data" was a plural count noun, and it still can be.
It's only recently that it's been treated as a mass noun, and some
old fogies still complain about that usage.

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