From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750941AbVLLAdJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:33:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750942AbVLLAdJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:33:09 -0500 Received: from user-0c938qu.cable.mindspring.com ([24.145.163.94]:24519 "EHLO tsurukikun.utopios.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750943AbVLLAdI (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:33:08 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 From: "Richard M. Stallman" To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: jbglaw@lug-owl.de, helgehaf@aitel.hist.no, coywolf@gmail.com, luke-jr@utopios.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <439B3E36.7090302@wolfmountaingroup.com> (jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com) Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Reply-To: rms@gnu.org References: <21d7e9970512051610n1244467am12adc8373c1a4473@mail.gmail.com> <20051206040820.GB26602@kroah.com> <2cd57c900512052358m5b631204i@mail.gmail.com> <200512061856.42493.luke-jr@utopios.org> <2cd57c900512061742s28f57b5eu@mail.gmail.com> <20051210051628.E9E08CF4156@tsurukikun.utopios.org> <439A7E8E.8010707@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051210164320.GB15986@aitel.hist.no> <20051210190537.GI13985@lug-owl.de> <439B2215.6090408@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051210191501.GJ13985@lug-owl.de> <439B3E36.7090302@wolfmountaingroup.com> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:49:47 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At any rate, Stallman needs to in the next GPL incorporate capitalist provisions which will allow FOSS to become a self sustaining model. The GNU General Public License was developed in the US, and follows the principles that the US proclaims, which include doing business. That is how I came to the conclusion that selling copies is one of the things that free software must permit for every user. However, freedom and community are more fundamental than economics. The primary goal of the GNU GPL is to defend the freedom of all users, particularly the freedom to cooperate. Business questions are secondary. Fortunately, we need not to do anything to enable free software to "become self-sustaining", because it is already sustaining itself just fine. If and when we see real problems, rather than speculation about problems, we might have a reason to try to solve them. But we could not make radical changes in the GNU GPL, even if we wanted to. It would violate the commitment stated in section 9 of the