On Jan 17, 2:37 am, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Both. Firstly he doesn't speak for the FSF or Stallman, secondly, > Stallman has been found to say "charge as much as you can for Free > Software services" (this is not a direct quote, but the meaning is > there). > > What Stallman advocates is to do business whilst respecting your > customers by not restricting their freedom. >
Ah. > There some extremist views of capitalism which defend that you should > extort as much money as you can, by any means deemed necessary, from > your clients. This includes restrincting user's freedom, false > advertisement, FUD, etc... > So then it's not to destroy business, period, but to destroy *immoral* business. That makes a lot more sense, actually. > Stallman recommends you not to do dis but instead respect your > customers: give them their full rights. Attract your customers with > honey, rather than binding them in chains. > > This seems to me like a very sound and honest business method, and > nothing at all like something against business. > It sure does. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
