Re: [OSS] Re: Fwd: Second OSS Conference - Follow Up

At 04:22 01.02.2003 +0000, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> Huh, here is what happened with UniKey:
> 1) Two companies in Vietnam took the sources from the website,
> changed name
> and logo and "sold" the SW for good money to state offices.
> OK, something like that should not happen anymore, if we make good PR
> work....
> 2) Not long ago, somebody of the VietKey group (i.e. the very group
> which
> tries to get famous now as "Linux Company", accused Long, the author of
> UniKey of hurting Vietnamese SW Developers by releasing his Keyboard
> driver
> under the GPL.
>
>This is exactly the sort of problem that happens when people think of
>the system as "Linux", as an "alternative" system with some practical
>advantages, whose goal is mere success (popularity).

From a policy point of view, I don't care about GNU's or Linux' or Free
Software's or Open Software's "mere success (popularity)". That is
secondary. Primary goal is to counter a threat of MS and the like. See my
first two reasons in post "Religions and the Name of the Law".

>The way to stop this is to spread the idea of GNU--the idea of free software:
>that the goal is freedom to cooperate,

A good reason for developers. A not very i

> and the GNU/Linux system is important
>only as a way we can reject non-free software from our lives.
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