Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer
Op 01-04-15 om 08:20 schreef Alessandro Rubini:
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> The real problem is we lack sustainable commercial models for free
> software. No wonder independent developers are fewer and fewer: those
> who are not employed by big corps (G, RH, LF) do free software in
> their spare time after earning a living on proprietary software. And
> those who insist in remaining independent are starving, unless they
> are better at marketing than at developing.
>
> I welcome this approach, because it's novel and smart. Not "defective
> by design", but a simple thing to raise user's attention to a problem.
Nice to see that I am not the only one.
> Clearly I wouldn't like being forced to rebuild this and that to make
> real use of the distro.
An howto will do that.
> But unless we know what this software package
> is, all of this discussion is moot.
You can look at it as an "academic discussion", that's what I do.
> The only thing I'm sure about is that upstream has a built-in bug,
> easily removable. This bug has a novel and interesting reason to
> exist,
exactly.
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> I heard about a commercial model of making subtly bugged software and
> then sell consultancy to fix those bugs when users hit them. *that*
> would be bad to have in debian, but we can't really know if some of
> this exists or has been accepted. The upstream author of this
> discussion is much more clear and honest, and I respect it.
Nice to hear!
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With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
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Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen
http://www.vandervlis.nl/
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