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[adam]

commercial is not the same as commercial - ism...we all need to eat.

adam

On 07/02/2012 03:06 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> 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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