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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by tptacek on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:50PM (#21103545)
Again, and not to perpetuate an unproductive argument, but the opposite is probably true; it appears in a lot of cases to be easier to make money not locking up your code, which is why open source software dominates so many markets today, and is integral to virtually every commercial product.
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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by DoreenMichele on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:58PM (#21103599)
I'm not a software insider, but that's not my understanding of how that works. Free software seems to get used quite a lot to make money, but people actually working on free software seem to mostly not make (enough) money on it. It's a passion project and then it gets incorporated into things where parts are somehow locked up as a means to facilitate making money.

Not trying to argue with you. I just honestly don't understand it to work exactly like that, but some of your phrasing seems ambiguous and I'm wondering if I even understood you.

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Re:Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project... by maxerickson on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:00PM (#21103610)
There's lots of huge companies doing Free Software.

IBM bought Redhat at a valuation of $34 billion.

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