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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AFAIK you're right, Stallman only cares about free as in freedom, which means at a minimum the source code should come with the product so you can modify it and inspect it. If you can figure out a way to sell it like that, and not just sell tech support, I'm sure he'd be all for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

The GPL explicitly states that you can sell the software, just not the business model to do so.