Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Riley Baird
In the same way, I'm pretty sure is perfectly possible to make money developing free software. You just don't charge for selling copies or licenses, but instead you charge for developing new custom features or offering support and consultancy around the software. True, but you would make much

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread lumin
Hi Jan Gloser and debian-devel, First I'd like to repeat a point on my view: * Free Software != Software can be legally used without charge Besides, some Free Software Licenses don't prevent people from selling them for profit, and so does Debian GNU/linux itself. The key of freesoftware is

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 04:55:58PM +, lumin wrote: I have no trouble on making my personal choises, what I want to know is, what would you do to protect your software freedom, when the reality requires you to touch non-free blobs? ... such as firmwares in various microcontrollers in your

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Jan Gloser
Hello Lumin, I am not an active member of the debian community, just a listener on this thread, but you got my attention. I also admire free software makers although I think one must always keep in mind the reality of the world and the rules of the game called 'trade'. Software is a product like

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