Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
> Carl Thompson wrote:
>
> > For all I care, Troll Tech could sell their software for
> > $10,000. But I don't think it should be used by Free Software, even if
> > they only charged $1.
>
> Incredulous. Troll Tech's Qt 2.0 for X11 is a free software license. So
> you are obviously not referring to endusers here. So your philosophy
> appears to be that free software should be freely exploitable by
> commercial interests, who do not _have_ to give back a thing. If this is
> your view, fine, but (given the QPL and FreeQt foundation) I do not see
> what fundamental principles of the free software movement are put in
> jeapordy by KDE using a free Qt. All that remains is _possible_ GPL
> incompatibility.
My view is that Free Software isn't really free unless it can be used freely
by everyone, not just by some.
Carl Thompson
