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Commercial philosophs (Developers)

posted by Khusraw , Bucharest, Romania, 25.06.2009, 08:47
(edited by Khusraw on 25.06.2009, 08:57)

> So, writing a free program and offering paid support for it (whether they
> call it a business or not) is not "commercial" at all? Also, if people
> developing a free program are paid for the development, isn't it
> "commercial" then, in a way?

In the first case it is commercial support for non-commercial software. In the second, the term "commercial", if properly used in such a context, would concern the activity/work, not its results. Again, commercial software means any software intended to be sold or otherwise exchanged on the market, having a certain profit as aim, non-commercial software is any software which is made available without the intention to receive something in exchange. It is true that anyone can define "commercial" as he wants, but this doesn't imply we should accept that definition generally, outside the scope of the one who defined. Actually the lack of "rigueur" and the extreme mobility in defining and using terms is very wide-spread today, guess why.

> I think the word "philosophy" doesn't fit the GNU project very well. Also,
> you probably meant the free software movement, not only GNU.

Nor do I. I did refer to the link you provided, which is part of the "Philosophy of the GNU Project" and seems to express their particular views.

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