Re: Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman at KTH on emacs history and internals

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2010-07-18, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
...
> Right, and this "fascinating" and "amazing" and "awesome" post needs 
> only one rejoinder: twenty-four years later all we have is "free as in 
> beer" software being milked by proprietary enterprises.
>
> Sadly, they would be more effective and more profitable if RMS had never 
> existed, because then they would be paying fair market price for 
> significantly better proprietary tools driven by the demands of a 
> price/value competitive market.
>
> What we do not have is any interesting amount of "free as in speech" 
> software, because no one uses the GPL.

   I use nothing but free software, the vast majority of which is
   licensed under the GPL.

> The LGPL is Stallman's way of saying, OK, I was wrong.

   You obviously don't understand the LGPL.

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