[fit2rule]

Where you sit on this scale of secrecy is very much a matter of what you expect to get out of participating in the software 'business'.

RMS' movement allows for little wiggle room when it comes to 'free software', because it is a movement. Unless you're willing to join a movement, its perfectly okay to criticize it from the skirts - but the point is, RMS has set those skirts at a boundary of his choosing, according to an ideology.

That ideology has done a lot of good for the world. It is worth considering seriously, just what the world would be like today without a Free Software movement happening, as it did, over the last 40 years. 40 years of software development culture has existed with this ideology in its midst; what of the world, were it not so?

[cpkpad]

They're all ideologies, and some work better than others. We just don't recognize ours as such from the inside.

RMS's ideology seems to work better than the mainstream one.