Free Software

I read an article today. It was the usual war of words about free software and its sustainability. Groklaw has an editor that thinks this is the be all and end all of emphatic responses, in particular he is impressed by the clarity and style of writing that the refutation uses. I invite you to go and read both articles and form your own opinion, but I personally found the "attack" to be almost unreadble due to excessively vague and misplaced arguments and the "rebuttal" to be slightly more clear but to also be repudiating points that I didn't even consider as valid in the first place. An interesting read on this subject is the oreilly's book about Richard Stallman, it is completely free (ofcourse) and available online here.