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Comment by higerordermap

4 years ago

He was short sighted in many parts. Eg: the definition of free software as something that can be freely redistributed.

For infrastructure parts, it makes sense to be even permissive open source. For something in applications level, it would be nice to make money from it by charging corporations using it, while still being freely available for students and hobbyists. This could have combined best of open source and commercial software.

Stallman's belief is that everything is either good or bad, and there is nothing in between. He is write about consumerization of computing devices though.