This is a transcript of Hiroo Yamagata's interview with Richard Stallman. Hiroo Yamagata kindly granted permission to to display it here. Background information on this interview is available here . Hirro is a member of the Tokyo Linux Users Group .
Product implies that something is made to be sold.
Now, software companies develop software to sell copies. So that's a product. Whereas the aim of the GNU project is to create a better community. We sell copies to develop software. So there is a fundamental difference.