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Comment by dalke

There is no need to "[allow] open source software to be used for commercial purposes." That's already widely done. Open source and commercial software are not incompatible. Ask Google, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, and the Free Software Foundation.

But your essay wants to combing the concepts of "open source" and "mandatory licensing." Those concepts are mutually exclusive.

You need to read and understand the underlying moral philosophy being free software to understand why what you are asking does not make sense. Start with http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html .

parent dalke 13 years ago

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