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Stallman" <></td></tr><tr><td class="lp">Subject</td><td class="rp" itemprop="name">Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario</td></tr><tr><td class="lp">Date</td><td class="rp" itemprop="datePublished">Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:49:47 -0500</td></tr></table></td><td></td></tr></table><pre itemprop="articleBody"> At any rate, Stallman needs to in the next GPL incorporate<br /> capitalist provisions which will allow FOSS to become a self sustaining <br /> model.<br /><br />The GNU General Public License was developed in the US, and follows<br />the principles that the US proclaims, which include doing business.<br />That is how I came to the conclusion that selling copies is one of the<br />things that free software must permit for every user.<br /><br />However, freedom and community are more fundamental than economics.<br />The primary goal of the GNU GPL is to defend the freedom of all users,<br />particularly the freedom to cooperate. Business questions are<br />secondary.<br /><br />Fortunately, we need not to do anything to enable free software to<br />"become self-sustaining", because it is already sustaining itself just<br />fine. If and when we see real problems, rather than speculation<br />about problems, we might have a reason to try to solve them.<br /><br />But we could not make radical changes in the GNU GPL, even if we<br />wanted to. 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