On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:51:46AM +0600, Day Brown wrote:
> >If you don't want to write free software, nobody forces you.
> >We just don't want to be forced to use unfree software!
> >
> Besides all that, let's define 'we' as meaning only real people rather
> than the virtual variety known as corporations. People have moral
> issues, incorporated entitities only have PR problems. I dont see why a
> real person programmer could not expect virtual users to pay real money
> and real users pay only in attention.
You didn't get the point.
First, what you might know already, but I want to repeat it:
the term "free software" doesn't mean the prize, but the freedom.
Think of "free speech" not "free beer".
There is also commercilal free software, eg. GNU/Linux distributions.
There are incorporations which do work on free software, and
that's great!
We really shouldn't fight "incorporated entitities", au contraire we
should integrate them, we should bring them to work on free software.
The GPL is a good means for that. GPL code can only be used in GPL
code.
There are also firms, that just partly work on free software and mainly
do their proprietary software (eg. IBM). That's okay as long, as they
keep it separate.
P.S.: The word "FreeDos" differs only in one letter from the word
"freedom". :-)
--
Tschuess
Andreas
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