A lot of corporations are indeed making a ton of money off the back of free labour and free software. Thanks Stallman
On Thu, 21 Sept 2023, 23:36 Richard Gaskin via use-livecode, < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> Bob Sneidar wrote: > >>> Erm… neither of those are free. :-) > >> > >> Please explain. > >> https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md > >> https://discord.com/blog/starting-your-first-discord-server > > > > > > Well, if I go to my bartender and ask for a free beer, I might get one, > > but then the bartender or the owner has to pay for it. > > True. These systems are popular enough that there's enough who choose to > pay for optional premium services so the rest remains free of cost for > everyone else. > > > As for freedom, everyone I think knows that our freedoms are purchased > > at a precious price. > > Also true. After thousands of years of intellectual property theft, the > Berne Convention of 1886 finally created a global framework establishing > that the author of an original creative work has sole authority over its > distribution. > > A hundred years later the Free Software Foundation and others used the > foundation established by the Berne Convention to create standardized > licensing guaranteeing the freedom to read, modify, and redistribute > software for any package using those licenses. These freedoms fostered such > proliferation that today most of the world's software infrastructure is > powered by open source. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
