Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > And together with the statement above, I think the more progress could be > > made if make GNU OS (Linux based) more attractive to more > > people. > > Of course, we try to do that. It is easier said than done. There is > no way to do it in general -- only various ways to do a lit of it in > specific. Those depend on volunteers who want to work on it. Yes I know I am aware of it. I believe that as a general rule of act we need to give people more incentive to work on Free software. This can come from more people using free software. Which is kind of a circle, not evil one though :-).
I am suggesting for GNU to try to work more towards giving people that incentive. Maybe via political means, by persuading politicians and taxpayers that they have interest to pay for development of free software. For example if they "buy" (sponsor) development of free software, they can use it themselves. They (taxpayers) can save money in the long run when developers for some reason stop developing it, more companies would have insight in the software and be able to pick up development, contribute, etc. There are many reasons why taxpayers might wish to invest in free software rather then in closed source software. Not to mention personal freedom and privace as well as guarantee that organisations, company and institutions are not spyed on either. Openess of software is probably the only guarantee for personal privacy which is important for any democracy and freedom. I think general audience is not that introduced in problems about the software and why prefer free (at least open source) software vs. closed source software.
