Not sure that I agree with this guy on a moral level
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| skelband May 14, 2011 12:27 PM EDT |
Richard Stallman, I believe (I hope I do not misquote him) is most emphatic that there is no moral opposition to charging for software that is open source.
Red Hat do it all the time. What you get for your money is support in the form of their expertise, time and effort. I must admit that I don't think the author fully understands the distributed nature of most free products which are community developed and maintained. Gnome and others receive remuneration as a body for its costs, but I don't think that it is practical in most cases to remunerate the developers. There are so money of them in many cases that it would be difficult to find them all, let alone properly apportion that cost among them. I personally am a strong supporter of remunerating effort at the point at which it is delivered. Which is why I am not a strong supporter of copyright as a vehicle for remuneration in general. It is just too open to abuse. I praise Red Hat and their like because people pay for what they perceive is service that they want from them. |
| phsolide May 16, 2011 10:40 AM EDT |
Well said. The side effects of copyright seem to cause more troubles to society as a whole than the benefits outweigh. |
| ComputerBob May 16, 2011 11:37 AM EDT |
Quoting:The side effects of copyright seem to cause more troubles to society as a whole than the benefits outweigh.To me, that sounds like someone who doesn't own any copyrights. |
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