Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:39:29 -0400 | From | "Murray J. Root" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new |
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:26:20AM -0400, Hacksaw wrote: > >It is NOT the same as claiming a criminal/immoral/unethical act - you > >still want me to produce software - you just want me to do it for free. > > I think RMS has made this clear a number of times. He doesn't expect > programmers to produce software for free, he expects them to produce software > that the end user can easily modify for their own applications, without legal > or technical hassles. > > He's happy for them to be paid for this work.
Without selling it? Rather tricky to accomplish. And yes, he does effectively say selling it is wrong - when he says that users should be allowed to give it away. If you can get it for free, why would you pay me? Don't tell me for support - someone else does the support. I do the writing. Basically, he's trying to set limits on what I do with what I created. There is no justification for that. I contribute time and effort to open source because I want to return something for all the benefit I get out of it, not because some self-appointed arbiter of morals tells me I should.
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