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The free software movement generally believes that software exists only to solve problems for its users. The creator of a piece of software has no moral rights
by tsimionescu 3y ago
The free software movement generally believes that software exists only to solve problems for its users. The creator of a piece of software has no moral rights to profit it from it more than any other user. Richard Stallman doesn't complain that Linus Torvalds used the GNU userspace tools to outocompete HURD out of existence.
It's perfectly reasonable not to subscribe to this ideology. I don't particularly think it is a very good or well motivated ideology. However, you can't pretend that you are a free software adherent while also wishing to prevent certain uses of your software.
Note that Stallman has explicitly come out against IBM RedHat's similar complaints about people distributing copies of RHEL for free for this very reason.