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> if you're selling non-SAAS products

Pretty funny, considering how much RMS dislikes SAAS.

I do not know, but I suspect this is exactly why RMS dislikes SAAS: because it can technically obey a license without having to give users the freedoms he designed the GPL to give.

It's deeper than that. By its very nature, SAAS precludes every single one of the freedoms that the GPL is designed to give.

The GPL isn't really about sharing source code; that's just a means to an end. The GPL is about being able to exercise complete control over - and having complete knowledge of - all the software that you use. To an approximation, SAAS is about the opposite of that.

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