Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-nyu-2001-transcript--4ff1f9-Freedom Three is the freedom t/en

Freedom Three is the freedom to help build your community by publishing an improved version of the software. People used to say to me, &ldquo;If the software's free, then nobody will get paid to work on it, so why should anybody work on it?&rdquo; Well, of course, they were confusing the two meanings of free, so their reasoning was based on a misunderstanding. But, in any case, that was their theory. Today, we can compare that theory with empirical fact, and we find that hundreds of people are being paid to write free software, and over 100,000 are doing it as volunteers. We get lots of people working on free software, for various different motives.