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Stallman And Bero Interviewed
Juraj Bednar writes: "I have done two interviews: one with Bero from RedHat and one with Richard
Stallman, the GNU and FSF founder. I usually write in my native language, but since these interviews were done in English, I asked myself why not to share them" Readers may want to also visit Bero's shared-source.com, and bookmark it as a FUD antidote.
I own a small software company. I use free software to build my products (it's an web based ASP). But, I charge a HELL of a lot of money for products and services. And no, they don't get the source. I have sent diff patches in for software that I use and have found bugs in or fixed, but that's it.
Why don't I give my code and products away? Because I wouldn't have a business if I did. I sell goods to make money.. if it wasn't software it would be Beans or Cabbage. Whatever.
Monopolies will come and go, but as long as there is a need for premium or niche services (almost any business now days).. there will be commercial software and there will be people getting rich.
Unfortunately (the brutal truth).. the people who are business minded are FEEDING on people like us.
Unfortunately, as the value of that software is brought lower, those services will be needed more and more to deal with what will eventually be an acceptance of faulty software. Don't believe it it can happen? There's a whole majority of software users out there, one of which might be your grandmother or cousin, who believe that its OK for the program to crash if you can just restart it or reboot and carry on.
... uh, waitaminnit, what wuz you tryin' to say again?
Duh, yeah boss! So we gotta get 'em to stop using dat buggy open source source stuff like Windows and start usin'
-- Sigs are for losers
Apparently these interviews are dynamically generated.
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If you owned billions of dollars worth of MSFT stock, you would dance like that too I'm afraid.
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