> Stallman's conception of free software says that you should be able to charge as much as you want. Yes, once. After this your first customer is now free to u

> Stallman's conception of free software says that you should be able to charge as much as you want. Yes, once. After this your first customer is now free to undercut you and bring the price as close to zero as they like, as is their first customer, etc. The analogy is: you can charge Nature as much as you want for the rights to publish your paper, but when you do, you have to give them the raw data, in replication-ready form, which they will then publish to anyone they sell the journal to. And Nature's customer is in turn allowed to republish and if they do is required to again make the source data available. I think you're reading more than is warranted into rms selling some emacs tapes by mail order back in the day.