On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 08:44 +0100, Matthias Kirschner wrote: > Would anyone here disagree that software is commercial as soon as people > are paid to develop it?
I think there's a difference between software developed commercially and commercial software - just because people are paid to write it isn't the crucial difference for me. Indeed, even if people got compensation of some sort, I wouldn't necessarily call it commercial: soliciting donations, for example, doesn't make software commercial for me, even if it pulls in a considerate amount each month. I would struggle to label most free software as commercial on that basis. RHEL would be an example I suppose, but I wouldn't call Ubuntu commercial. Of course commerciality isn't equivalent to non-freedom but it's pretty indicative and if you used it as a rule of thumb you'd probably be right 99.999% of the time. Cheers Alex. -- This message was scanned by Better Hosted and is believed to be clean. http://www.betterhosted.com _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
