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What are you even talking about?? "Stallman, et. al are also against anyone making any money from building software" This is utter non-sense. I think you are
by chatman 13y ago
What are you even talking about??
"Stallman, et. al are also against anyone making any money from building software"
This is utter non-sense. I think you are confusing "free as in freedom" with "free as in free beer". Stallman openly says free software can be commercially developed and supported. Just that the users should have certain freedoms to use it. The developers can sell copies of their free software if they choose to.
- morgante 13y agoIn a NYC talk, Stallman readily said that software developers should absolutely never work for any company developing closed source software (ie. the vast majority of software companies) and should instead work as waiters, developing free software in their free time. [1]: http://isoc-ny.org/p2/5844 http://isoc-ny.org/p2/5844
- teddyh 13y agoYou apparently think that "commercial" and "making money from software" must, must mean "proprietary" and "closed source" software. RMS and the FSF disagree strongly with this and see no inherent conflict between the two. Either you didn't know and were honestly ignorant, or you were deliberately trying to confuse the issue.
- morgante 13y agoI know they disagree with this, but the fact remains that it's very challenging to make money off open source software. Few companies are able to sustain such a business model, particularly if the target market is consumers with no interest in retaining consulting services.
- teddyh 13y agoNow you've changed the subject from "Stallman, et. al are also against anyone making any money from building software" to "[...] it's very challenging to make money off open source software", which is a separate point entirely.