Le jeudi 7 novembre 2019, 05:43:26 CET Richard Stallman a écrit : > > > Free Software should be community developed. There is no problem > > > for companies to contribute but they absolutely should not be > > > the the driven factor. > > > > Iʼm afraid, implementing that maxim would undermine the goal of > > the free software movement, which is to make _all_ software free > > (= eliminate nonfree software); > > My view is somewhere between those two statements. > We should not let companies dominate the free software movement, > but we encourage companies to develop and release free programs.
But then what if companies dominate most software (as this a wider social and economical issue)? If they don’t let individuals do that, and if individuals are too few, lack time or money? Is that a software freedom issue? Should that be a reason not to expect and ask for all software to be free? PS : this discussion doesn’t seem to be that technical anymore, bother moving it to gnu-misc-discuss?
