Re: Practicality of GNU project and libre movement

[Miles Fidelman]

On 7/23/20 12:48 PM, Sagar Acharya via libreplanet-discuss wrote:

> I read "Free as in Freedom" by Richard Stallman and am a strong supporter of 
> GNU project. I strongly want it to succeed.
>
> However, when you keep money away from the free software movement, such a movement cannot survive 
> against people who actively charge money for binaries without source code. All power arises from 
> concealment. When you understand a system very well, the power goes away and it looks ordinary. 
> When GNU or libre movement asks contributors or volunteers (both fancy words for "work for me 
> for free"), you present making libre software as a secondary thing rather than a central 
> thing. When projects licensed GPLv3 rely almost completely on "donations" from other, you 
> rely on the donor's generosity for getting food at your table. I really want people to remove 
> reliance on external things and make GNU central and very active.
So what's your point?

FOSS is doing quite well.  Apache powers the web.  Postfix powers 
email.  Linux, Python, ...  And plenty of the bug guys pay good money to 
folks who crank out FOSS software.

What's the point of pontificating & spouting counter-factual bullshit?  
Do you just like making a fool of yourself?  Or am I missing something?

Miles Fidelman



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In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
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