Re: “Free Software should be community developed” (was: (Really) Free Software future)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Free Software should be community developed. There is no problem
  > > for companies to contribute but they absolutely should not be
  > > the the driven factor.

  > Iʼm afraid, implementing that maxim would undermine the goal of
  > the free software movement, which is to make _all_ software free
  > (= eliminate nonfree software);

My view is somewhere between those two statements.
We should not let companies dominate the free software movement,
but we encourage companies to develop and release free programs.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)