[P2P-F] red hat's restriction's

[Michel Bauwens]

hi patrick,

I think you may have misread the article it's not about selling software,
but about withholding updates on bugs .. i.e. some info is no longer shared
with competitors ...

this may or may not be justifiied but is a separate issue

Michel

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/
> >
> Their actions are well within the constraints of the GNU GPL.
>
> In other words, they are doing nothing illegal.
>
>
> And I'm sure Richard Stallman would approve, since he is the
> originator of the GNU GPL and has used it sell software.
>
> """I had no job, and I was looking for ways to make money from free
> software. So I announced that I would mail a tape to whoever wanted
> one, for a fee of $150. In this way, I started a free software
> distribution business, the precursor of the companies that today
> distribute entire Linux-based GNU systems.""" --
> http://GNU.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
>
> In other words, they are doing nothing immoral (at least within the
> thinking of the godfather of Free Software).
>
>
> I personally don't see what the supposed problem is.
>
> Why should selling Free Software be considered troublesome?
>
> Do you realize no software license qualifies as "Free Software", (by
> the FSF) or as "Open Source" (by the OSI) unless it allows for
> commercial distribution - including the ability to charge for that
> service?
>
>
> This is really just part of the answer to the question of how artists
> can cover the costs of "immaterial production".
>



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