On 2002.02.09 05:32 Plato wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 03:50:09AM -0500, David Elliott wrote: > > On 2002.02.08 15:03 Brett Glass wrote: > > [...] > > >taxes: It will act in its own interest, not yours. The FSF's > > >sole goal is to destroy commercial software developers, and > [...] > > Give me a break dude. Yes, the FSF wants all software to be free and > > wants to rid the world of commercial software altogether. > [...] > > I think it is worth pointing out the the Free Software Foundation does > *not* > want to rid the world of commercial software. > > Stallman has, however, stated that he would like to rid the world of > *proprietary* software. > Whoops, sorry, you are correct about that. However to the person I was replying to commercial==proprietary.
Red Hat Linux is a commercial product, but not proprietary (to give an example). Though I think Red Hat does have a few proprietary products they work on. > There is an incredibly important difference. Please do not use the terms > interchangably. See > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-libre-commercial-viability.html > Been there long ago.. just kinda forgot. -Dave
