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Don't forget that the FSF was selling binaries as a fundraising opportunity for a while as part of the Deluxe Distribution they'd sell for $5000, and before tha
by mattl 3y ago
Don't forget that the FSF was selling binaries as a fundraising opportunity for a while as part of the Deluxe Distribution they'd sell for $5000, and before that Stallman was selling copies of GNU Emacs on tapes for $250.
Selling binaries has always been a business model.
- jrochkind1 3y agoselling binaries, yes. Trying to prevent people from redistributing the source: no. (Yes, in an internet world, it's hard to make money selling binaries if people can redistribute source, maybe. the FSF was selling binaries in a different context, for better or worse. You are still welcome to sell binaries. You are even welcome to charge for distribution of source. But the fundamental goal of the GPL is to give users the right to redistribute source without restriction. The FSF never tried to limit that.)