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On June 29, 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU General Public License, version 3. What happened since then? Federico Biancuzzi had the opportunity to discuss many subjects with the FSF's founder and president Richard Stallman.
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Lennie is trying to tell you that companies and organizations that never sell any software actually employ more programmers than companies that sell software. And software that is only used in-house is neither free or non-free.
RMS has said on numerous occasions that there would still be plenty of jobs available for programmers even if people stopped writing non-free software altogether. Here's one interview where RMS mentions custom software development as an alternative to programming non-free software:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/luispo-rms-interview.html