Re: Is it a goal of the "Free" software movement to destroy easy sources of income?

[David Kastrup]

mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> writes:

> I noticed this old post here:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/243e191086e80bef?dmode=source
>
> QUOTE:
> "Stallman does not care about
> business.  But others do.  "Open Source" has been one way to sell
> corporations their own downfall in a veiled manner.  It has taken a
> brutal but effective toll on stock market and the corporations.  Free
> Software is nothing that you can easily profit from.  But it is
> something that will prevail. "
>
> Does this mean that one of the goals of Free software is to destroy
> software as a source of money, hence requiring people to resort to
> other forms of business to obtain money that might be much more
> difficult to start up? (hence limiting them to only people _born_ into
> wealth?!)
>
> Or am I just too paranoid or way off base in my interpretations here?

I am nobody's speaker or leader, so there is nothing to be gained from
assigning an interpretation to my words.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum