Reality: This really is one of the silliest of the myths floating around, but it is out there, and so needs to be addressed.
If the Free Software Movement, of which the GNU Project is part, was anti-capitalistic, don’t you think that the leaders of that movement would object to for-profit companies such as Redhat, Novell/SuSe, etc. using their code to make money?
As Richard Stallman has said:
The Free Software movement is more like the environmental movement: we object to doing business in a way that poisons our society. As long as business respects our freedom, we are not against it, we even participate in it.
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