Free?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:09:48 -0400, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk>  
wrote:

> 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.

So you're saying the code you write as FOSS should cost something (i.e.  
you want something in return)?  Interesting...

-Steve