Free?

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 01:32 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[ . . . ]
> I think you misunderstood my point. What I was trying to say is: If 
> someone's going to worry about others profiting from their free code, why'd 
> they even make it free in the first place?

I have no problem with companies making money from FOSS by providing
value added service or proprietary components, as long as they are
clearly seen to be "giving back" to the FOSS community as a "quid pro
quo".  What I object to is companies taking FOSS software, making a
proprietary product from it, getting updates from the FOSS community for
free, restricting product purchasers regarding the FOSS software and
generally treating the FOSS community as a pool of slave labour to be
milked.

-- 
Russel.
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