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tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
>OK, back to our universe.  It's probably too late for anyone to become
>a software billionaire, but suppose FSF operated in a for-profit manner
>for several years, and then switched back to free-mode?  Would the net
>result, say, 20 years from now be better or worse?

  Right.  Here is some similar logic:

  I am a Priest.  I want to build up a need for being 'saved' to I start up
a Satan-Worshiping cult that is bent on destroying all humanity.  In the
'long run' it could save a lot of lives by killing off all the major
weirdo's in the world.

  The whole point of FSF is to prove that it is possible to make money
treating software as a SERVICE rather than as a COMMODITY.  Them 
designing around the 'traditional' meaning of 'For-Profit' makes absolutely
no sence.  "Do as I say, not as I do" only seems to work for T.V. Evangelists.


  BTW: If you are talking about 'for profit' in the SERVICE sence, you should
not that they are already doing this.

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