Free Software and commercial influences

• Companies engaging themselves
  • Distributors and Linux-Companies (SuSE, RedHat, small ones, ...)
    Have an interest in the actual state, because they emerged from it
  • Hardware and others (IBM, Sun, ...)
    Especially for hardware companies GNU/Linux is simply useful
    Because of this they have an interest in the actual state
• Licenses prevent privatization
  • Gnu General Public License (GPL)
  • Other licenses
    These partially allow re-privatization (BSD)
• Quality accrues from the absence of alienation
  Only then creativity can fully unfold
• Wage labor contradicts Selbstentfaltung
  Is alienated because it is aimed at a third goal (making money)

Free Software can develop only without money

This ultimately prevents a drastic commercialization
Otherwise Free Software is destroyed