By the way we have decided to *NOT* to take proprietary product company as a sponsor of our FLOSS event as it'll dilute the whole purpose, the FLOSS values.
Here is what RMS has to say about it: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Stallman <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [Gnu-linux-discussion] [x-post] Proprietary Product Company as a sponsor of FOSS event [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 1) To have a proprietary product company as a sponsor of FOSS event is it morally right? Having a proprietary software company as the sponsor of an event grants legitimacy to the company's proprietary software. Thus, it sends a message that contradicts the free software idea. By the way, if you want to support the idea of free software, saying "FOSS" doesn't do that very well. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html. 2) What about proprietary *service* company? The terms "free" and "nonfree" are defined for programs. They are meaningless for services. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html. I mean the one which serves it's client with say system administration or building a dbms system (which is closed source suppose) for the client This might be SaaSS (service as a software substitute), but I can't tell for certain because your description is very sketchy. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html. If you want to support the idea of free software, I suggest not saying "closed source" (or "open source") since they refer to a different idea. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. _______________________________________________ Gnu-linux-discussion mailing list Please follow the GLUG Mailing List Rules. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
