On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote:
"Yet if Creative Commons is successful, sharing will become even more pervasive. And a lot more money will be made along the way." I have the feeling, that CC is in fact about exactly this: Somehow find a new big-business-model for a world where lossless digital copies already are common (sic!). I like, that the FSF always was not so much about business models but held to that ethics goal of a more free society (for programmers).
Well, if there is not enough focus on business models, then, in most situations, free-software programmers have to get day-jobs, and do the free-software part as a hobby, if they still feel like it after already coding proprietary software all day long to pay the rent.
If more time were spent developing business models, free-software would be much more commonplace and pervasively developed/used than it is now. Ethics are more often respected when the rules are not too difficult to apply.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju