On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 12:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Call > is social responsibility, call it a *"request from the community"* >
Sounds more like dictating a social *duty*. > This, however, is from the view point of a community versus corporate > - where the community is the large amorphous mass (whose collective > resources base is large but individual resource base disparately > distributed) and the corporate are the proprietory privateers (who have > even larger private and unshared resources) whose sole motive is profit, > wherever it may come from and whatever the cost. So is there a > responsibility with that freedom , to access code, to make profits etc > and my uneducated question is are they giving back from where they have > taken - > Somehow there is this difference in attitude between Free software folks and the *BSD guys that keeps irritating me. Our main idea is to benefit the *community* right? By the community, for the community ... that is what we would want to say, right? So what is this antagonism towards people making money or people with wealth who are using this software? Why do we care? As long as the community keeps getting better and better over time, we have accomplished what we have to. When you use words like "responsibility" or "giving back", you *are* talking about strings attached to using Free software. If there are such strings, put them in the damn licence, otherwise nobody has the right to interpret the licence or its "spirit", whether they are Free or closed source software people. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
