At Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:43:28 +0100, ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This day I had a really enervating discussion about free software with > my mother. Finally I got her to claim the following statements: > > o One cannot make money with free software > o Free software cannot provide (data) security > > She also called called it fraud if a company sells support for a free > program.
Ness, this is all very interesting. But let me suggest that this is the wrong forum ;) Maybe these links can help you: http://www.germany.fsfeurope.org/documents/eur5greve.en.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ http://www.free-culture.cc/ http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/ There are zillions of successful commercial free software endeavours. Many of them are local, but there are also some international. I would suggest you start to look in your city. GNU Business Network Definition http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/gnubiz-disc/2000-December/000014.html The Success of Open Source (Hardcover) by Steven Weber http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674012925/104-5612744-6755134?v=glance If you can read German: Freie Software Zwischen Privat- und Gemeineigentum http://freie-software.bpb.de/ The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html Free Can Mean Big Money: The Open Source Economy http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8054 The Political Economy of Open Source Software http://e-conomy.berkeley.edu/publications/wp/wp140.pdf _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
