FSFE position on "open core"

[Hugo Roy]

+ 2014-01-07 Tue 13:15, Mirko Boehm <mirko at fsfe.org>:

> 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.

Well, no because they are not software companies to begin with.

http://hroy.eu/posts/facebook_open-source_company/



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