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What I understood (from one of his talks), Stallman doesn't care about your business model. As simple as that -- if you can't figure out how to make money while
by dchest 15y ago
What I understood (from one of his talks), Stallman doesn't care about your business model. As simple as that -- if you can't figure out how to make money while writing free software, that's your problem. The software may eventually be written by those who can figure out the business model, by those hired to write such software, or by those who don't care about making money.
As for how this affects commercial innovation, I don't know. [Added:] I guess, the point is that human rights (according to RMS, proprietary software restricts freedom) are more important than innovation.
- 101001010101 15y agoSell hardware?
- polymatter 15y agoor you can simply write the software and give it away as part of your portfolio. A visible portfolio of good code will lead to more/better paid work.
- SkyMarshal 15y agoMore likely that human rights are more important than making money. GNU/Linux and its ecosystem has demonstrated that innovation is orthogonal.
- dchest 15y agoI meant "more important than any potential innovation gained from writing proprietary software". That is, if there's no more innovation in proprietary software compared to free software (like you said, with GNU/Linux) -- we're good, but if we're missing the innovation from such software, so be it, we're also good.