News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by bad_user on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:35AM (#15347632)
There's nothing in the Free Software definition that requires copy-left licensing and RMS, along with the other FSF members have validated most OSI approved licenses as being Free Software, including BSD, MIT, MPL and Apache 2.0.

RMS has said a lot over the years, including that the dual licensing business model (e.g. GPL + proprietary) is a valid business model (i.e. whatever it takes to keep development of the GPL version going). And his opinions don't necessarily reflect the official position of the FSF.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by SEJeff on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:49AM (#15347750)
He's also said that proprietary software should be illegal due to it stripping freedoms away from users.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by bad_user on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @11:13AM (#15348561)
He also said that he downloads websites by sending an order by email [1].

That's still irrelevant to the discussion here, which is about what Free Software is and how it compares with Open Source.

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

[ Parent | on HN ]