Re: Forking old GMGPL libs ?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> writes:

> I want it to be free-as-in-beer forever as well as well as open
> sourced. The FSF is against this. If you search on Ebay for basically
> any large FLOSS application, like Gimp for instance, you will find
> them being sold to people who already have internet connections
> (because they can bid)but again not a problem to the FSF that people
> are being charged $20 + shipping for Gimp, even though they could
> download it for free if they understood the situation. It's
> exploitation of people who don't understand whats available.

You can't fix ignorance thru a license, only thru education. In this
case you need better marketing of your free version.

You also can't fix bad people (exploiters) thru a license. Again, one
solution is to do a better job of marketing than they do.

Of course, marketing costs money, which is one reason the people that
are charging money for free software packages do so; it pays for the
marketing.

TANSTAAFL.

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