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What I fundamentally dislike about RMS' philosophy and the licenses its inspired, is that it values a developers time as nothing. As if the world has some fund
by lbj 7y ago
What I fundamentally dislike about RMS' philosophy and the licenses its inspired, is that it values a developers time as nothing. As if the world has some fundamental right to everything that rolls out of my head.
- Avamander 7y agoHow does it value that time as nothing?
- lbj 7y agoIf you invent a great piece of software, you need to be paid for the time you put into making it. If your only play is a license deal or such, open source will kill your business. Or turn it into something that RMS agrees with. But it wont be "your" business.
- Avamander 7y agoBut noone is forcing you to make software libre, with or without asking money for it.
- lbj 7y agoThankfully no force. Its just his philosophy
- Avamander 7y agoNo, his philosophy doesn't suggest that either.
- orangeshark 7y agoYou can sell your free software, RMS even encourages it. The reason a lot of the software is gratis is to lower the barrier to use and spread the software. This makes sense if you want to quickly spread an operating system composed of free software. Unfortunately that has become the default for most free and open source software, even for many proprietary software these days.