Re: Comments on the website from people on twitter...

[Ivan Vučica]

MAC-locked builds -- that is, DRM -- are an anathema to free software and the 
project itself and FSF would not stand behind it.

Getting donations, selling SD cards or even charging for downloads is not, as 
long as the end product is not DRMed.

(Not that I think charging for downloads would be a good idea.)

Regards,

Ivan Vučica
via phone

On 9. 8. 2013., at 09:25, "Dr Slivnik Tomaž MA (Cantab) MMath (Cantab) PhD 
(Cantab) FTICA" <slivnik@tomaz.name> wrote:

> Would it be possible to produce a GnuStep-based desktop/distribution with a 
> set of apps (as per my previous mails, and others'), very small, but all 
> robust and well-built, and co-operating between themselves as API-based 
> interchangeable components (e.g. Mail.app and AddressBook.app with 
> AddressBook being used by Mail only via a published API with users being able 
> to replace it) for Raspberry PI --- much in the way NeXT's MO was your 
> "world" here the SD card would be.
> 
> One could build an SD-card image, and charge a $1 or $5 to generate a 
> downloadable image configured to work with a given Mac address, or provide 
> the SD image with limited functionality (say, everything but network 
> connectivity) for free but charge $1 for a Mac-locked password to network 
> enable it.
> 
> GnuStep could position itself as an educational system, a kind of "Pascal" 
> versus Mac OS X's "C": no industrial-strength bleeding edge bells and 
> whistles and experimental buggy, poorly thought out stuff, just 
> well-thought-out orthogonal, mission critical, "just works" frameworks and 
> apps.
> 
> The $1-$5 per seat could generate enough income to pay for an intern to 
> package SD card distribution updates.
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