> On Apr 15, 2021, at 7:44 PM, Frosku <fro...@frosku.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri Apr 16, 2021 at 12:36 AM BST, Christopher Dimech wrote:
>>
>> The commercial use of free software is our hope, not our fear. When
>> people
>> at IBM began to come to free software, wanting to recommend it and use
>> it,
>> and maybe distribute it themselves or encourage other people to
>> distribute
>> it for them, we did not criticise them for not being non-profit virtuous
>> enough, or said "we are suspicious of you", let alone threatening them.
>>
>
> There is a colossal difference between commercial use and commercial
> entities buying control of projects currently governed by entities
> which are answerable to the grassroots (GNU) and then toppling that
> governance structure in favor of one which is only answerable to
> boardrooms in Silicon Valley and Seattle WA.
There are, or would be if that were a real issue. It's not something that is
feasible with GPL licensed code, whether the copyright is held by the FSF as it
is for GCC, or by all the authors as for Linux.
paul
