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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by hellcow on Sunday April 21, 2019 @08:59PM (#19715582)
Free in this context means "free as in speech, not as in beer."
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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by AndrewKemendo on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:07AM (#19716455)
I'm aware of what this version of free means. However you can't separate the two in a free (as in speech) market.
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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by hopler on Sunday April 21, 2019 @09:02PM (#19715602)
Free speech implies you can't force it to be not free as in beer. Being allowed to charge money for something doesn't prevent other people for giving it away free.
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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by rlayton2 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @09:33PM (#19715734)
True, but there are a large number of people for whom just running "make" at the command line is too much of a hassle. This is normally the market, not other technical people.
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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by wmf on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:34PM (#19716305)
This really doesn't work and it's a disservice to mention it. Every time someone has tried to withhold binaries other people step up within hours to provide them (whether that's a good thing or not).
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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by rlayton2 on Monday April 22, 2019 @05:35AM (#19717588)
Thats not what I meant. I was more considering "help those people" than "take advantage of them and lock them in"
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