DOS ain't dead - Commercial philosophs

Commercial philosophs (Developers)

posted by ecm , Düsseldorf, Germany, 25.06.2009, 02:51

> Sorry, but that is an arbitrary and erroneous interpretation of the word
> "commercial" by the sustainers of the GNU "philosophy". "Commercial" means
> being aimed for selling or for other type of market exchange, any free
> software which is the result of business activity is non-commercial
> and any software produced outside a business activity which is intended for
> selling/market exchange is commercial. Those are well established
> terms with a history and an etymology which seem to be far beyond the
> knowledge of the GNU "philosophy" writers.

So, writing a free program and offering paid support for it (whether they call it a business or not) is not "commercial" at all? Also, if people developing a free program are paid for the development, isn't it "commercial" then, in a way?

I think the word "philosophy" doesn't fit the GNU project very well. Also, you probably meant the free software movement, not only GNU.

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