K5: 'Is Richard Stallman's Fight For "GNU/Linux" Suicide?'

Georg C. F. Greve greve at gnu.org
Thu May 17 17:00:15 UTC 2001


 || On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:33:47 +0200
 || Lutz Horn <lh at lutz-horn.de> wrote: 

 lh> ...
 lh> this kind of thinking. And I repeat: by stating the compatibility
 lh> between free software and commercial use the FSFE is doing
 lh> exactly this.

Thinking that Free Software was about being non-commercial is a
misunderstanding that a lot of people have (including the author of
the article). It is a misunderstanding, however.

Free Software is not about being against commercialization, it is
about being for freedom.

Regards,
                Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org>
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