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On 01/07/2014 01:15 PM, Mirko Boehm wrote:
On 07.01.2014 13:06, Torsten Grote wrote:
On Tuesday 07 January 2014 13:03:58 Mirko Boehm wrote:
We should not argue like that. There is no definition of what a "Free Software company" is.
Did you see this?
https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/enterprise/freesoftwarecompany.en.html
Yes. It does not contain a tangible definition. "Free Software
companies are companies that have adopted business models in which the revenue streams are not tied to proprietary software model licensing conditions." Does that mean a bakery is a free software company? Is Slideshare a Free Software company, because it is not licensing proprietary software? And once a business is labeled a "Free Software company", what does that really mean? It is still not an entity operating with the common good in mind.
I think it might be fair to say that a free software company is a company that delivers software to customers and *never* supply software downstream under a proprietary license.
This excludes all companies that sell a non-free "enterprise solution", such as Alfresco and (case in point) Bacula.