Re: OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync)

[Richard Stallman]

      Even developers who appreciate the ethical =
    considerations of writing free and non-free software have to pay the =
    mortgage, feed their kids,

Why do you assume they have a mortgage?
Why do you assume they have children?
Not everyone has these things.

People are not compelled to have these things; it is a choice.
Choosing not to have a mortgage can make life a lot less worrysome.
Choosing not to have children is itself a substantial contribution to
civilization's survival, and it greatly facilitates contributing to
society in many other ways (developing free software being one).

Anyway, the fact that it is easier to make money from proprietary
software is nothing new, and we won't learn anything useful about
how to live ethically by rehearsing it.