[Trisquel-users] Re : Stallman on the Linux Action Show

[magicbanana]

What don't you understand about custom software: some company or institution  
(or whatever) needs an application to fill a specific needs or, more  
frequently, needs to configure/adapt existing applications so that they  
accommodate these needs. Either it contracts developers to achieve the job  
(the developers are employees; they receive paychecks) or it contracts  
independent developers (usually organized in a company) to achieve the job.  
In the first case, the software is not distributed at all (talking about  
copyright does not make much sense). In the second cases, the customer  
receives the application under the terms of a free software license. In  
particular, it receives the source code of the software. In both ways, the  
customer does not suffer from any unethical control/dependence to the  
software developers. It can, for instance, choose to contract other  
developers to fix bugs left by the former developers or add some more  
features.