Thanks for the clarification. I think I still agree with you. If I had to emphasise a point though it would be that the profitability one can get from informa

Thanks for the clarification. I think I still agree with you. If I had to emphasise a point though it would be that the profitability one can get from information asymmetry is hardly a genuine justification for it. > advocating FOSS without addressing the economic issues is pure dreaming. Totally agree. Now I discovered today that Stallman is probably aware of the economic issues[1]. Still, he doesn't deal with them. I don't know why, but I guess he may estimate there are other competent people working on just that (he repeatedly said that Free Software is a cause besides many others, and that he chose this one because he could). [1] http://www.harishanker.net/2009/06/richard-stallman-interview/ http://www.harishanker.net/2009/06/richard-stallman-intervie... It's not fleshed out, but I take it as evidence that Stallman at least thought about it.