On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:08:39 +0200, clipka wrote:

> Jim Henderson schrieb:
>>> You want to make money out of a GPL'd product? Then it /must not/ be
>>> user-friendly, intuitive and bug-free.
>> 
>> I disagree.  Given that I work for a company that does work to make
>> (for example) the Linux desktop user-friendly, intuitive, and bug-free,
>> it's fair to say that I do know a little bit about what I'm talking
>> about.
> 
> I do confess that I'm exaggerating a good deal here, and not mentioning
> the closed-source software side.
> 
> But I think given the hype of GPL, it's worth pointing out flaws in the
> FSF's oh-so-glorious "we promote free open source software and still
> allow anyone to make money from it, thus bettering the world" point of
> view.

Without recognising the flaws, they cannot be addressed. :-)

Jim

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