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Re: Is it a goal of the "Free" software movement to destroy easy sources


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Is it a goal of the "Free" software movement to destroy easy sources of income?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:37:18 +0100
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mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Jan 16, 4:12 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> mike3 <mike4...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> > I noticed this old post here:
>>
>> >http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/243e191086e80bef?...
>>
>> > QUOTE:
>> > "Stallman does not care about
>> > business.  But others do.  "Open Source" has been one way to sell
>> > corporations their own downfall in a veiled manner.  It has taken a
>> > brutal but effective toll on stock market and the corporations.  Free
>> > Software is nothing that you can easily profit from.  But it is
>> > something that will prevail. "
>>
>> > Does this mean that one of the goals of Free software is to destroy
>> > software as a source of money, hence requiring people to resort to
>> > other forms of business to obtain money that might be much more
>> > difficult to start up? (hence limiting them to only people _born_ into
>> > wealth?!)
>>
>> > Or am I just too paranoid or way off base in my interpretations here?
>>
>> I am nobody's speaker or leader, so there is nothing to be gained from
>> assigning an interpretation to my words.
>
> Well, okay, I'm not sure exactly what that's supposed to mean (What
> I'm trying to "gain" right now with my post is understanding of this,
> first of all), but perhaps maybe you could tell me if my
> interpretation was right?

Again: I don't set the goals for free software, so it is nonsensical to
assign any relevance to any interpretation of my musings.  They are food
for thought, nothing else.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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