+ 2014-01-07 Tue 13:15, Mirko Boehm <[email protected]>: > 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.
Well, no because they are not software companies to begin with. http://hroy.eu/posts/facebook_open-source_company/ -- Hugo Roy, Free Software Foundation Europe, <www.fsfe.org> Deputy Coordinator, FSFE Legal Team, <www.fsfe.org/legal> Coordinator, FSFE French Team, <www.fsfe.org/fr> Support Free Software, sign up! <https://fsfe.org/support>
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