Comment by alganet
10 hours ago
No, it doesn't. Freedom to commercialize does not mean the movement is designed to make things cheaper.
10 hours ago
No, it doesn't. Freedom to commercialize does not mean the movement is designed to make things cheaper.
It's not designed to do that, no. But it is one of the goals, or at least one of the bonuses they expect to come of this. A big part of the freedom Stallman wants for everyone is the freedom to pay anyone who has the skills to work on your software, rather than the original creator having a monopoly on that and being able to charge monopoly prices to you.