|| On Sat, 19 May 2001 12:55:00 +0200 || Stefan Meretz stefan.meretz@hbv.org wrote:
sm> But it is a important difference saying "free Software is about sm> being for commercialization of free software" or saying "free sm> Software is about being for freedom (not only) of sm> software". That's the point.
By stating that one thing is compatible with another, you do not say anything about what either one of them is about.
Lutz statement was about compatibility, not content.
As Bernhard has shown at the beginning of this thread, the FSF has always emphasized the compatibility of Free Software with commercialization. Richard Stallman himself has repeatedly told people to make as much money as they possibly can with Free Software because this will eventually lead to more Free Software.
Also it should be clear by now that being against commercialization is being against freedom in the sense of Free Software.
Regards, Georg