Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 07:40:28PM +0200, Jan Gloser wrote: So from my perspective - feel free to use non-free software, but remember to pay for it, at least if the price is reasonable ;-). What to do with non-free software that doesn't require payment? It's the matter the original message was

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Riley Baird
In the same way, I'm pretty sure is perfectly possible to make money developing free software. You just don't charge for selling copies or licenses, but instead you charge for developing new custom features or offering support and consultancy around the software. True, but you would make much

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread lumin
for becoming a Debian member, always. However now I get into trouble with the problem of Spirit of Free software or Reality. I wonder how Debian interprets it's Spirit of Free Software. (Certainly Social Contract and DFSG don't refer much detail

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 04:55:58PM +, lumin wrote: I have no trouble on making my personal choises, what I want to know is, what would you do to protect your software freedom, when the reality requires you to touch non-free blobs? ... such as firmwares in various microcontrollers in your

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Jan Gloser
. Cheers, Jan On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:55 PM, lumin cdlumin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Debian community, I long for becoming a Debian member, always. However now I get into trouble with the problem of Spirit of Free software or Reality. I wonder how Debian interprets it's Spirit of Free Software

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