From ee472da23815be6c4038ae683167dd10aba136be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:13:26 -0500
Subject: Begin section on commercial free software.

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 			RMS, stuned and angry, immediately and without a word walked out
 			[Williams-RMS, 6-8]
 
+commercial free software
+	many believe that money can't be made in open source and free software
+		that free means noncommercial
+		logical fallacy, false exclusionary disjunct
+	free software can be used commercially, and successful business models exist
+	if a license allows only noncommercial dealing, it would be non-free
+		[FSD]
+	generalized the ways people make money with fs into 3 broad categories
+	1. development
+		resembles pre-1970s economic models around software
+			programmers paid for time spent on work
+			not for copies of work (or rather contracts allowing use thereof)
+			[Codebreakers]
+		four examples:
+		a. Linux
+			over 70% of work done on Linux is done by paid programmers
+			[Linux-Kernel-Development, 12-13]
+			6000? 7000? programmers work on Linux
+				clarify? cite?
+			at least 659 companies have supported Linux development
+			[Linux-Kernel-Development, 10]
+			compare to the Microsoft Windows NT kernel
+				one company? plus contractors?
+				1,000 MSFT employees worked on Windows Vista as a whole
+				estimate ~20 employees worked on NT kernel between 5.x and 6.x
+					years?
+		b. Qt
+			flexible cross-platform application framework
+				popular in desktop, server, and embedded environments
+				[Qt]
+			most developers employed by Qt Development Frameworks
+				subsidiary of Nokia Corporation since 2008
+				[Qt-Development-Frameworks]
+			free software, GNU LGPL 2.1
+				[Qt Licensing]
+			now maintained as an independent project
+				[citation needed]
+		c. GNAT
+			a compiler for the Ada programming lang, now part of GCC
+			originally developed by NYU
+			under $3-million contract awarded by USAF in 1992
+			under requirements of contract, (C) transferred to FSF
+			sw released with terms of GNU GPL
+			[GNAT]
+		d. GNU
+			FSF hired programmers to work on parts of GNU
+				GNU Bash
+					popular and user-friendly command shell
+					now used in systems like GNU/Linux and Apple Mac OS X
+				GLIBC
+					ISO C library
+				GNU tar
+					archiving program
+				[Freedom-and-Cooperation]
+			all are fs, all are nowadays often distributed at no charge
+		why do companies pay for development of sw for which few people pay?
+			many companies sell support
+			many companies sell hw with which fs is run
+				servers, wireless network adapters, digital cameras,
+				mobile phones, televisions, cars, commercial airplanes, etc.
+			many companies see fs as a way to save time+money
+				and not have to reinvent wheels
+				
+	2. support
+	3. distribution
 
 Jargon-meaning
 	http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
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