www/philosophy fs-motives.html

[Rob Myers]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Rob Myers <robmyers>    10/04/21 21:04:03

Modified files:
        philosophy     : fs-motives.html 

Log message:
        RT 554801 Provide context for considering these motivations.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/fs-motives.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5

Patches:
Index: fs-motives.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/fs-motives.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- fs-motives.html     27 Mar 2010 18:58:43 -0000      1.4
+++ fs-motives.html     21 Apr 2010 21:04:00 -0000      1.5
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@
 <p>Human nature is complex, and it is quite common for a person to
 have multiple simultaneous motives for a single action.</p>
 
+<p>Free software projects, and policies that affect software development
+(such as laws), can't limit themselves to maximising the profit motive.
+When encouraging software development is the goal, all these motivations
+have to be considered, not just any particular one.</p>
+
 <p>Each person is different, and there could be other motives that are
 missing from this list.  If you know of other motives not listed here,
 please send email to
@@ -112,7 +117,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/03/27 18:58:43 $
+$Date: 2010/04/21 21:04:00 $
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 </p>
 </div>