From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:43:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20080805044309.GA29566@tomas> References: <335607.35573.qm@web95005.mail.in2.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217911037 17663 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2008 04:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: dhruva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 06:38:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQEJ9-000237-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:38:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQEIC-0001Lb-Ns for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQEI8-0001Im-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQEI4-0001BE-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44859 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQEI4-0001An-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:54496 helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQEI3-00034V-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A50219006C; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:43:09 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <335607.35573.qm@web95005.mail.in2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102072 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:23:36AM +0530, dhruva wrote: > Hello, [...] > IMHO, what we need is real good organized paid support to free software [...] > source than what is happening currently. At work (in corporates), > people are just scared to use free source under GPL! Therefore, they > keep using more proprietary software and building on top of it. Is it > possible for FSF/GNU to setup something for paid users? I hope somethin= g > comes out in the near future. Pushing free software in corporates would > be a big step forward and that will attract larger user (and hopefully > contributors) base. Au contraire -- I've managed to convince several customers that GPL is actually *good for them* (I work on medium-to-small projects): (1) They actually become *less* dependent on myself. The project lives on if there are other people besides myself interested in its outcome (2) If there is another commercial entity interested in this baby, my customer will eventually reap the benefits of them improving it. (some customers remain sceptical even in front of those arguments, alas). Remember: it's especially the *user* the GPL caters to.=20 Note that I favour the GPL on philosophical/ideological grounds. Still it has a lot to offer to the customers on practical grounds. Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIl9pdBcgs9XrR2kYRAoVYAJ9tsfD6fPRo3pZQYgN0rltP+ACxIgCfdel5 lN08rkHj2jZkJtayYlTFeIw=3D =3D8f+o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----