FSFE position on "open core"

[Mirko Boehm]

On 07.01.2014 13:06, Torsten Grote wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 January 2014 13:03:58 Mirko Boehm wrote:
>> >We should not argue like that. There is no definition of what a "Free
>> >Software company" is.
> Did you see this?
>
>      https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/enterprise/freesoftwarecompany.en.html

Yes. It does not contain a tangible definition. "Free Software companies 
are companies that have adopted business models in which the revenue 
streams are not tied to proprietary software model licensing 
conditions." Does that mean a bakery is a free software company? Is 
Slideshare a Free Software company, because it is not licensing 
proprietary software? And once a business is labeled a "Free Software 
company", what does that really mean? It is still not an entity 
operating with the common good in mind.

And please don't get me started on the economics aspects of it :-)

Mirko.
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Mirko Boehm | mirko at kde.org | KDE e.V.
FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany
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