Comment by heavyset_go
4 years ago
I don't think Stallman's crazy, he's just passionate about his beliefs, and people whose careers depend on not acknowledging the truth in what he has to say like to dismiss him.
4 years ago
I don't think Stallman's crazy, he's just passionate about his beliefs, and people whose careers depend on not acknowledging the truth in what he has to say like to dismiss him.
He was short sighted in many parts. Eg: the definition of free software as something that can be freely redistributed.
For infrastructure parts, it makes sense to be even permissive open source. For something in applications level, it would be nice to make money from it by charging corporations using it, while still being freely available for students and hobbyists. This could have combined best of open source and commercial software.
Stallman's belief is that everything is either good or bad, and there is nothing in between. He is write about consumerization of computing devices though.