mike3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 16, 4:12 pm, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mike3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I noticed this old post here: >> >> >http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/243e191086e80bef?... >> >> > QUOTE: >> > "Stallman does not care about >> > business. But others do. "Open Source" has been one way to sell >> > corporations their own downfall in a veiled manner. It has taken a >> > brutal but effective toll on stock market and the corporations. Free >> > Software is nothing that you can easily profit from. But it is >> > something that will prevail. " >> >> > Does this mean that one of the goals of Free software is to destroy >> > software as a source of money, hence requiring people to resort to >> > other forms of business to obtain money that might be much more >> > difficult to start up? (hence limiting them to only people _born_ into >> > wealth?!) >> >> > Or am I just too paranoid or way off base in my interpretations here? >> >> I am nobody's speaker or leader, so there is nothing to be gained from >> assigning an interpretation to my words. > > Well, okay, I'm not sure exactly what that's supposed to mean (What > I'm trying to "gain" right now with my post is understanding of this, > first of all), but perhaps maybe you could tell me if my > interpretation was right?
Again: I don't set the goals for free software, so it is nonsensical to assign any relevance to any interpretation of my musings. They are food for thought, nothing else. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
