"Free Software" - what does that mean?
Free Software and commercial influences
Companies engaging themselves
Distributors and Linux-Companies (SuSE, RedHat, small ones, ...)
Have an interest in the actual state, because they emerged from it
Hardware and others (IBM, Sun, ...)
Especially for hardware companies GNU/Linux is simply useful
Because of this they have an interest in the actual state
Licenses prevent privatization
Gnu General Public License (GPL)
Other licenses
These partially allow re-privatization (BSD)
Quality accrues from the absence of alienation
Only then creativity can fully unfold
Wage labor contradicts Selbstentfaltung
Is alienated because it is aimed at a third goal (making money)
Conclusion
Free Software can develop only without money
This ultimately prevents a drastic commercialization
Otherwise Free Software is destroyed
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