[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Tue Feb 21 16:51:41 UTC 2006


Hannu Savolainen <hannu at opensound.com> writes:

> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> > Yes. If you don't want to pay anything for software your only choice
>> > is to get some morally clean free sofware with no other
>> > documentation than the source code. This works well if you are a
>> > programmer and have enough spare time to find out how the source
>> > code works.
>> 
>> Who is talking about not paying?

> In practice using "free" software also means that you are using it
> "for free"? I apologize if this was not the case with you. If you
> have really paid seomething to the authors of the "free" software
> packages you are using then I would say your moral is exceptionally
> high.

I make my livelihood developing free software for pay.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum



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