Well I am not sure what you mean by "believe in the _fsf movement_" ... as far as I know, the "movement" is for software freedom, and FSF is trying to be a central body to support it. There's also the open source movement. Then there's this huge category of people who simply don't care about movements, and instead just code and give away their work because they feel like doing so.
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Please correct me if iam wrong in my comment or otherwise, It was just plain curiosity which dragged me towards linux, later opensource and still later to free software funda.
About the movement, from what I've read about it, is it just about software or is one trying to make a point about the society in general too?
I know am still not being exactly articulate, but the whole issue can be sometimes confusing to a person standing on the pavement wondering whether to jump in or not! ...read me!!!
While free software might make business sense, the idea propagated by opensource.org IMHO is not really likely to succeed.
How many people can make money by releasing the source code? Software develops faster, true!, software also develops better, true! But does it make business sense? I've heard about companies cutting costs using opensource, I know it can be done. But for a software house to succeed by opening it's own source? :/. Why would any other business house want to ask the parent company for support when they can have 2 software geeks inhouse to provide support for the project on their own? Where does this leave the software house?
Redhat began the fedora project in the hope that worldwide developers will have a hand for it to succeed. But what percentage of coders whom you know, work for pleasure while they need to put food on the table?
I don't intend to start any holy war which has been fought countless times already. Am just a guy asking questions... just out of curiosity ..