[FM Discuss] updated IBD

Daniel James daniel.james at sourcefabric.org
Mon Jul 2 06:06:57 PDT 2012


Hi Adam,
> i think we have to accept all commercial activity. its the end result of
> free culture.

Not necessarily, some Free projects work against commercialisation. For
instance no-one would launch a proprietary alternative to Audacity now,
just like the market for paid web browsers has been almost non-existent
since Microsoft used their desktop leverage to kill Netscape as a
company (look it up in the history books, kids :-) )

> we should
> just get used to it.

I don't have a problem with alerting users if they are using a non-free
fork of a project that they didn't know was Free.

Cheers!

Daniel



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