Aesop’s fable on Standards, RMS and Selling Free Software, Release Coordination: links 25-08-2008
The Belly and the Members – “Aesop” on Free Standards (via Jon Udell), excerpted from The Myth of Free Standards: Giving Away the Farm. I totally agree on the importance of standards sales revenue, since eliminating the fee-based system has definitely a cost:
Otherwise, standards publishers, purveyors and purchasers might begin to see “For Sale” signs affixed to the “homesteads” of many SDOs and third-party standards providers — to the detriment of us all.
Thoughts on Richard Stallman and Free Software – James McGovern wonders why Richard Stallman never talk about the economics of software development. While I have been critical of other Richard’s decisions, I am fine with his decision to almost not talk about it.
Economic clustering and Free Software release coordination – Mark Shuttleworth believes that for a stronger impact of open source on the global software market we need to coordinate the releases of major pieces of the free software stack.
Roberto Galoppini and 
Roy Schestowitz 9:16 am on August 27, 2008 Permalink
Watch this view where RMS encourages selling Free software.
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv203_cambridge_4_stallman_08-04_001.ogg
Roberto Galoppini 11:33 am on August 27, 2008 Permalink
Hi Roy,
I know Richard is used to talk also about it, and I put a link on the almost word just to mention it. Richard is very effective when he gives speech on the free software cause, but he lacks to impress a business audience when he talks about FOSS economics.
All in all there is a lot to talk about free software, and the business side is just one of them. He takes very good care of other important aspects, though.