-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman_at_gmail.com> writes: >> One thing that FOSS (BSD or GPL) has historical had issues doing >> cleanly is seperating free software from free beer. The first >> being a very important goal and the second a unfair side effect >> of thinking that open source by definition means free use of the >> products. > > Speak for yourself. > >> Yes the source should be avaible to everyone but as far I can >> tell that does not automatically and should not translate into >> not having some responibility to the community that created the >> project in the first place.... my approach (along with 3 other >> small software vendors) is to have a requirement to contribute >> back to the community in some form (in work or help support those >> doing the work), namely it is free software but not free beer. > > Excellent idea, if your goal is to kill the project. Now to really get some flames... I think the fall of the USSR proves you wrong on that.... namely small groups can afford to do stuff this way but not large and critical projects > > DES - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. "Free software != Free beer" Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhiI8jRvRjGmHRgQRAp4xAKCgQPMiyhNyDqDQ53yXl8Kzg6kIhQCeLtgJ XbxexdVWAwJq8ZdRSt4R0Cg= =y2V0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 12:48:50 UTC
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