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Story: Sun 'distorts' definition of free software
Posted by: Erik Poupaert (Saturday 2 July 2005, 11:24 AM)
Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz's comments about understanding free software as free as in beer instead of free as in speech underlines what he wish it were, and indeed, not what is actually happens to be.
Free as in speech results in a paying market place for software services which is incompatible with what the current elite of software vendors favour as their business model. They'd rather keep living off per copy license fees rather than truly taking responsibility for delivering problems solved; which is a different ballgame altogether.
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