[ox-en] Re: press release critique
- From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve gnu.org>
- Date: 02 May 2001 12:19:09 +0200
|| On Wed, 2 May 2001 11:15:35 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
|| Bernhard Reiter <bernhard intevation.de> wrote:
br> ...
br> The FSF and RMS are indeed encouraging commercial Free Software.
br> (Some quotes below:
br> http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
br> http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/selling.html
br> ...
I agree with Bernhard here. There is only two small things I'd like to
add:
1. We (meaning the FSF and FSF Europe) very deliberately speak of
Free Software in the "freedom, not free beer" way. We would speak
of "Free Software as in freedom AND free beer" otherwise.
2. One of the freedoms that is very important is the freedom to make
a living off good work. Personally I believe Free Software is good
work.
As Pim van Riezen stated quite correctly: the central goal of Free
Software is freedom, not money. But there is nothing bad or unethical
about making money with Free Software.
Regards,
Georg
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Georg C. F. Greve <greve fsfeurope.org>
Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org)
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