Free Software

Free Software

Posted Sep 5, 2005 20:42 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Free Software by Wol
Parent article: Open Source: upsizing is unpleasant for some! (IT-Director)

> Free Software didn't, doesn't, and never will give a damn about the business world. It will carry on regardless.

Well, it may carry on regardless, but it isn't going to be very useful without the business world. Computers are made by companies (i.e. businesses). If those companies decide to make computers in such manner that they can't run free software (which is already happening to a degree), it isn't going to matter one bit that free software doesn't care (which isn't true anyway). To think otherwise would be naive.

Free software (movement) no only cares about the business world (after all, these people are users too), but it wouldn't be able to exist without that world.

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