On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:05:04PM -0800, mike3 wrote: > QUOTE: > "Stallman does not care about > business. But others do. "Open Source" has been one way to sell > corporations their own downfall in a veiled manner. It has taken a > brutal but effective toll on stock market and the corporations. Free > Software is nothing that you can easily profit from. But it is > something that will prevail. " > > Does this mean that one of the goals of Free software is to destroy > software as a source of money, hence requiring people to resort to > other forms of business to obtain money that might be much more > difficult to start up? (hence limiting them to only people _born_ into > wealth?!) > > Or am I just too paranoid or way off base in my interpretations here?
Both. Firstly he doesn't speak for the FSF or Stallman, secondly, Stallman has been found to say "charge as much as you can for Free Software services" (this is not a direct quote, but the meaning is there). What Stallman advocates is to do business whilst respecting your customers by not restricting their freedom. There some extremist views of capitalism which defend that you should extort as much money as you can, by any means deemed necessary, from your clients. This includes restrincting user's freedom, false advertisement, FUD, etc... Stallman recommends you not to do dis but instead respect your customers: give them their full rights. Attract your customers with honey, rather than binding them in chains. This seems to me like a very sound and honest business method, and nothing at all like something against business. Rui -- Hail Eris! Today is Boomtime, the 17th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss