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| DATE | 2015-06-03 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] making money with open source - John Walker
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Quoting Ruben (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
> 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.
In the days of FSF shipping out tapes of GNU software, apparently it
amounted to most of FSF's budget, though I don't have figures. Anyway,
the point was to cite a prominent and famous counterexample to your
claimed impossibility.
> 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.
Last I checked, all the software in RHEL was free software. (Two SRPMs
have trademark-encumbered image files, but those aren't software.) All
of the SRPMs that comprise the software in RHEL are freely available,
and are all under free software licences, in their respective subtrees
of ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/ . (The
trademark-encumbered image-file SRPMs are also there.)
I am not sure about OpenSUSE. SLES and SLED, if those still exist, had
some proprietary components.
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