Re: “Free Software should be community developed†(was: (Really) Free Software future)

[gameonlinux]

Just to note: these foundations (Gnome foundation, Mozilla foundation, 
etc) may be non-profits, but they are companies. They just put their 
profits into salaries instead. The development model is the same: 
hireling slavish like cattle people are gathered by promise of money so 
they can impress "wuhman".

They do whatever they are told to get that money for "muh wuhman".
Or whatever idol they have placed in the place of the standard idol.

Thus they behave just like the proprietary companies.

On 2019-11-07 04:43, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>
>   > > Free Software should be community developed. There is no problem
>   > > for companies to contribute but they absolutely should not be
>   > > the the driven factor.
>
>   > Iʼm afraid, implementing that maxim would undermine the goal of
>   > the free software movement, which is to make _all_ software free
>   > (= eliminate nonfree software);
>
> My view is somewhere between those two statements.
> We should not let companies dominate the free software movement,
> but we encourage companies to develop and release free programs.