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| DATE | 2003-02-15 |
| FROM | From: "Stanley A. Klein"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [fairuse] Re: [hangout] Re: eGovOS conference in D.C.
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At 02:40 PM 2/15/2003 -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:11:17PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> I would argue that a sound economic foundation for Free Software
>> is the most important thing to society at this junction.
>>
>> Arrangements that lead to more funding for free software development
>> would be good, of course, all else being equal.
>
>It' not just funding of Free Software development, it's a fund of the users,
>administrators, and the marketers of Free Software.
>
>> But I am not
>> convinced that free software needs any specific thing that one would
>> call an economic foundation, because I don't think that the greatest
>> limiting factor today for the further development of free software is
>> a matter of funding.
>
>There has to be a foundation of economic development because otherwise
>people can't eat. Eating is good. Not eating is very bad.
This sounds like it plows the same ground as an email discussion I had with
RMS a couple of years ago, about the time of the UCITA fight in Maryland.
Also, strangely, as I understand it, Tony Stanco's first efforts in the
area of free/open-source software involved a rather grandiose and
impractical proposal intended to help in this area.
I think it may have been bits and pieces of his idea that led to the
conference.
Stan Klein
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