From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T03:45:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby licence...

Kevin Brown <blargity@gmail.com> writes:

>> >> I work on commercial code... [*snip*]
>> >
>> > Richard Stallman would be ASHAMED!!!
>> > </sarcasm>
>>
>> In case you didn't notice, the FSF is not opposed to commercial code,
>> but closed code.
>
> I didn't notice, as it's quite hard to sell software when one person can buy 
> it and then give it away to everyone else for free with no legal 
> consequences.

FYI, Stallman made some money to get the FSF started by distributing
Emacs on tape.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
> Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for
> development. Don't waste it!

It may be even possible (but the FSF surely doesn't encourage to) to
sell commercial licenses, cf. MySQL (though they are not the best
example).

I get the intent of the joke, but I think it is important to clarify
this issue.

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