Forum Software LC?

[Dan Brown]

A lot of corporations are indeed making a ton of money off the back of free
labour and free software. Thanks Stallman

On Thu, 21 Sept 2023, 23:36 Richard Gaskin via use-livecode, <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> > Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>
> >> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> >>> Erm… neither of those are free. :-)
> >>
> >> Please explain.
> >> https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
> >> https://discord.com/blog/starting-your-first-discord-server
> >
> >
> > Well, if I go to my bartender and ask for a free beer, I might get one,
> > but then the bartender or the owner has to pay for it.
>
> True. These systems are popular enough that there's enough who choose to
> pay for optional premium services so the rest remains free of cost for
> everyone else.
>
> > As for freedom, everyone I think knows that our freedoms are purchased
> > at a precious price.
>
> Also true.  After thousands of years of intellectual property theft, the
> Berne Convention of 1886 finally created a global framework establishing
> that the author of an original creative work has sole authority over its
> distribution.
>
> A hundred years later the Free Software Foundation and others used the
> foundation established by the Berne Convention to create standardized
> licensing guaranteeing the freedom to read, modify, and redistribute
> software for any package using those licenses. These freedoms fostered such
> proliferation that today most of the world's software infrastructure is
> powered by open source.
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
>
>
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