FSFE position on "open core"

[Carsten Agger]

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On 01/07/2014 01:15 PM, Mirko Boehm wrote:
> 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.
>
I think it might be fair to say that a free software company is a
company that delivers software to customers and *never* supply software
downstream under a proprietary license.

This excludes all companies that sell a non-free "enterprise solution",
such as Alfresco and (case in point) Bacula.

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