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| DATE | 2015-06-03 |
| FROM | Ruben
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] making money with open source - John Walker
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On 06/03/2015 12:51 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> This will come as a shock to, among others, FSF, which sold GNU software
> for ages.
>
Just to first put this discussion in perspective, we are kicking this
around for education, and the conversation is not to be taken as a
competition.
The FSF doesn't sell enough software to even feed RMS, let alone sustain
a cooperation or an economy. All the Free Software sales dried up, they
don't even WANT to sell software, and hence Red Hat, and SuSE pulled
their consumer grade COTS software off the market.
Now with the cloud push, they don't want to sell the software at all,
but rent the service, which is essentially the same idea.
Cory Doctorow made some interesting points about app stores in that
video I posted before. It is the stranglhold on a platform that drives
sales of COTS software. That is a VERY difficult space to be in for
Free Software, and who wants to be there anyway, if you have the moral
leanings of the FSF.
Ruben
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