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Re: âFree Software should be community developedâ (was: (Really) Fre
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Alexandre François Garreau |
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Re: âFree Software should be community developedâ (was: (Really) Free Software future) |
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Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:57:52 +0100 |
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?