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Care to point any other definition?Care to point any other definition?Posted Jul 27, 2009 18:17 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (guest, #14462)In reply to: Care to point any other definition? by khim Parent article: Launchpad source released The purpose of all Free Software licenses is to provide freedom to the user, not the developer. The developer, of course, has the freedom to choose which project gets to benefit from her talent and resources. One cannot fail to understand this and nonetheless be more logically correct than RMS, I'm afraid.
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Care to point any other definition? Posted Jul 28, 2009 6:20 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] The purpose of all Free Software licenses is to provide freedom to the user, not the developer. There are no distinguished users and developers in this world. Everyone uses the software and a lot of people change the software - especially if it's simple set of web scripts. The stated goals are "freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software". But what about the situation where these freedoms are in conflict? RMS showed how copyright is about conflicting goals of the same people - and how big corporations perverted these goals. The same thing starts to happen with free software with the advent of AGPL.
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