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Re: freedom
- From: Achim Gädke <Achim dot Gaedke at physik dot tu-darmstadt dot de>
- To: Gangolf Jobb <jobb at stat dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:06:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: freedom
- References: <3E886E9B.20208@stat.uni-muenchen.de>
Gangolf Jobb wrote:
> third, i am not going to contribute anything, though i could.
>
> what is the use of free software, if it is not the programmer who is
> gaining freedom by writing and selling software? i mean those kinds of
> freedom that require money: the freedom to get rid of a boss who is
> paying the programmers wage and telling him or her what to do. the
> freedom to take holidays whenever the programmer likes to. the freedom
> to get rid of the house-owner to whoom the programmer must pay rent
> each month and so on. there are people in this world who do not own
> anything and whose only chance to become free is by writing commercial
> software. i could live very well with a gsl under the lesser gpl and i
> do not support intolerance against those who are producing proprietary
> software as it is stated with almost religious fanatism in Richard
> Stallman's articles.
Please read everything said about that topic in this list before going
on answering or discussing... I will do so, too. Maybe someone can
contribute a "best of" mail!
Achim