jonathan carter

Dear Bill, it seems that your reasoning for thinking that the Free Software movement is dead is quite fundamentally flawed. Having a job or making money from your work is a method of making yourself, and your work more sustainable, and something that we, as the free software community support and encourage.

The Free Software Foundation has an entire page about this on their website: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/selling.html

Selling free software is good for free software, it’s good for the free software community. I’m with Richard on this one, please, go ahead and make as much money as you can from your free software products, employ people, create jobs, spread skills, make the world a better place!

Free Software is more alive in 2007 than it’s ever been. Governments, schools, libraries and private users use it ever more widely. The amount of developers are growing at an astounding rate, and the funding for free software is expanding quite drastically, with increasing backing from companies such as Intel, AMD, Nokia, Sun, and many more.

Bill, perhaps you should do some more reading on the free software community before making such ridiculous statements.