-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2014 01:15 PM, Mirko Boehm wrote: > On 07.01.2014 13:06, Torsten Grote wrote: >> On Tuesday 07 January 2014 13:03:58 Mirko Boehm wrote: >>> >We should not argue like that. There is no definition of what a "Free >>> >Software company" is. >> Did you see this? >> >> https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/enterprise/freesoftwarecompany.en.html > > Yes. It does not contain a tangible definition. "Free Software companies are companies that have adopted business models in which the revenue streams are not tied to proprietary software model licensing conditions." Does that mean a bakery is a free software company? Is Slideshare a Free Software company, because it is not licensing proprietary software? And once a business is labeled a "Free Software company", what does that really mean? It is still not an entity operating with the common good in mind. > I think it might be fair to say that a free software company is a company that delivers software to customers and *never* supply software downstream under a proprietary license.
This excludes all companies that sell a non-free "enterprise solution", such as Alfresco and (case in point) Bacula. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLL8XQACgkQletyW1YzdSEfEgCfQkovRwhHGVk12ZiIr+rlyClL 0zcAn3UXSC/PLJEtVATEhPL1fPkSrzOF =ORNk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
