By now, you've probably heard about or read Mark Shuttleworth's view on here.
I don't think that Mark's basic point is "because RHEL is a closed binary, it's proprietary" as Matt suggests. I read Mark's point to be: "NOTE: This is my take on Mark's post, and the pragmatic "me" doesn't totally buy into it. I don't think that Red Hat, or other vendor, would be able to fund the same level of product development if some (significant) portion of today's paying customers were to stop paying. There would be a direct link from:
- reduced revenue
- to reduced development funds
- to reduced functionality
- to reduced customer satisfaction
- to reduced users
- to further reduced revenue (repeat cycle)
Unless you just have a freehugscampaign.org made me laugh, so I wanted to use it.
Free Software - Should it Be Free?
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