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Funding Sources Like Corporate Sponsors/Patrons/Masters Put at Risk the Freedom of Free Software

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Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz 		Mail this story
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Sources of funding or “sponsors” such as large corporations typically come with some barely-visible or temporarily-invisible strings attached (an expectation of commercial reciprocity, rendering the recipients subservient like ‘slaves’) and we need to understand how to preserve software freedom in the face of such trends

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