Ted Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > guess the main reason large companies get > behind Free Software is along the lines of sharing costs and not having to > seperately maintain a different set of enhancements/bug fixes?
Some help free software because they want to shake off the control that Microsoft has over their products. Some help because they want to add one feature to an existing tool that they use but they don't want to have to write their own version of the tool. Some help because they want to sell related support, or training, or certification. Most of our software is "copylefted", so if any person or company distributes a modified version, that version must be entirely as free as the original. > That and > they all have a chance of charging us schmucks for customer service Yes, and us shmucks get to choose who gives us customer service in a free market, unlike non-free software where for each software package, there is only one company that can give you customer service (and paying for that service isn't even optional, no matter how bad it is). > suppose I'd have to find alternate sw that'd work instead of Skype and > sekond life - is it true there might be a linux version commming out? I don't know how free Second Life will be, but here's their PR that I haven't read: http://lindenlab.com/press/releases/01_08_07 > Ted, feeling dazed having to take all this stuff in! Well, here's just one more ...but it's a big one :) It's a transcript I just put online of one of Richard Stallman's recent speeches: http://fsfeurope.org/documents/rms-fs-2006-03-09.en.html -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
