Commercial Software

Michael Kesper mkesper at fsfe.org
Tue Mar 15 12:31:33 UTC 2011


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:51:50AM -0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> By your definition if I use some non-commercial software and then
> someone else starts selling it, then all of a sudden I am using
> commercial software.
> 
> That means it is impossible to know if I am not using commercial
> software or not unless I know that no-one else in the world is
> selling it (or undertaking some qualifying commercial activity).
> 
> If it is impossible to know if I am not using commercial software,
> then it becomes a useless definition in normal life.

That's true.  
The only use is of people who want to claim that Free Software would
be an antagonism to "commercial software".

Best wishes
Michael
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