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Re: Roy, how did you miss this one?

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:05:16 -0500, Linonut wrote:

> Of course, he then comes back and says that using open source to pay the
> rent is a good thing, and let's stop the "binary moralism".  And let's
> keep making money from "open source".

Precisely my point.

> Although the blog author starts out carefully distinguishing between
> "Free software" and "open source",  that distinction is not part of
> Erik's agenda.  Instead, he uses the article inexplicably to try to tar
> Roy.  Actually, what Erik just did is /justify/ any money Roy makes from
> pushing "open source".

Lol, no.  I used it to tar Roy for *PRETENDING* to push a pure free
software agenda, while simultaneously dishonestly trying to make money from
his actions.

Nice of you to admit that Roy is spamming though.

> And, even in Free software, money can be made, but we won't talk about
> that, because with Free software we can't hide code and yet still call
> it "open source".

Free Software's mantra is to make money on services.

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