Ryan Bach via devel wrote:
> What is so wrong about buying open source software?
IMHO, paying for "off-the-shelf" software is just wrong to begin with. (Of
course, if I want software developed specifically for me, then I expect to
obviously have to pay for that service.) Software can be copied essentially
for free.
And the software is only FOSS if it can be redistributed by anyone at no
charge (otherwise it fails the "freedom to redistribute" (Freedom 2)
criterion), so I expect the repository to do exactly that.
I understand that the "Free" in "Free Software" is not about "free beer",
but free-of-charge repositories are one of GNU/Linux's main features beyond
just being FOSS, just like, e.g., following the POSIX standard (which is not
a Free Software principle either), and as explained above, the Free Software
Definition does require under "Freedom 2" that those are possible.
Kevin Kofler
(my personal opinion, not my employer's nor the Fedora Project's nor anyone
else's)
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