> I should allow you to access my servers and services for
> free?
You can charge for Free software. If you're using any Free software in your web application stack, if you're using any Free documentation, and Free data sources, then isn't it a little hypocritical of you to lock-down what basically amounts to a component assembly of Free software?
> I should allow you to control how you use my resources in
> a way that guarantees I loose money?
Make all the money you want, companies are making billions out of Free software. And nobody wants to use your server, bandwidth or material resources. However, the _software_ should be given to the people who USE it. Giving the public a freebie web service for now, until you figure out how to sell their information and useage stats to advertisers, does not make your service free.
People are typing their twitter logins to little apps that are poping up everywhere. Wouldn't you rather have these web apps open, somewhere in github, with a transparent database backend that you can see is not hoarding any personal infromation about you?
> Stallman is a digital socialist.
And that's a label many would self-attribute, with pride.
> The idea of services (or anything other than direct
> labor) that people charge for offends him. That offends me.
ad hominem.
> I should allow you to access my servers and services for > free?
You can charge for Free software. If you're using any Free software in your web application stack, if you're using any Free documentation, and Free data sources, then isn't it a little hypocritical of you to lock-down what basically amounts to a component assembly of Free software?
> I should allow you to control how you use my resources in > a way that guarantees I loose money?
Make all the money you want, companies are making billions out of Free software. And nobody wants to use your server, bandwidth or material resources. However, the _software_ should be given to the people who USE it. Giving the public a freebie web service for now, until you figure out how to sell their information and useage stats to advertisers, does not make your service free.
People are typing their twitter logins to little apps that are poping up everywhere. Wouldn't you rather have these web apps open, somewhere in github, with a transparent database backend that you can see is not hoarding any personal infromation about you?
> Stallman is a digital socialist.
And that's a label many would self-attribute, with pride.
> The idea of services (or anything other than direct > labor) that people charge for offends him. That offends me.
Fine. Don't use Free software then :-)