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

[Alexandre François Garreau]

Le jeudi 7 novembre 2019, 05:43:26 CET Richard Stallman a écrit :
>   > > 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.

But then what if companies dominate most software (as this a wider social and 
economical issue)?  If they don’t let individuals do that, and if individuals 
are too few, lack time or money? Is that a software freedom issue? Should that 
be a reason not to expect and ask for all software to be free?

PS : this discussion doesn’t seem to be that technical anymore, bother moving 
it to gnu-misc-discuss?