[corentin]

He certainly is serious. But as long as his ridiculous totalitarian/communist ideas only apply to software, he's mostly harmless.

[alecco]

HN, wtf. Stallman is many things but would never, ever be "totalitarian/communist." Who is voting this troll up? Come on, this is supposed to be a hacker site.

He even talks about regime change in Cuba to open up.

[corentin]

That's not what I'm talking about.

Stallman declared he'd rather see computer clubs closed than using Windows. He wants to convert (I'm quoting the article) the "important resource" (read: people 'unspoiled' by Windows) to free software (just like Che Guevara who went to Africa to convert people unspoiled by capitalism to the ideal of communism).

So I rest my case: as far as software is concerned, he is a totalitarian.

[alecco]

> That's not what I'm talking about.

Yes, you are.

> Stallman declared he'd rather see computer clubs closed than using Windows.

Your paraphrasing is out of context and switches meanings. I am not going to even quote as you conveniently didn't quote that paragraph.

> He wants to convert (I'm quoting the article) the "important resource" (read: people 'unspoiled' by Windows) to free software

Yeah, so? He wants Free Software. Nothing new.

> (just like Che Guevara who went to Africa to convert people unspoiled by capitalism to the ideal of communism).

This is a very pathetic and childish hyperbole. You are the equivalent of the Fox News crowd for software.

(That's a hyperbole pun.)

[galactus]

I think he just forgot "unamerican"

[omouse]

My god, it's amazing to see the vitrol here. It looks like a lot of people don't like mixing their politics with their software.

[gaius]

I think Stallman's $1M grant from the MacArthur Foundation has given him a rather skewed idea about how economics works for most people even in the US, let alone the rest of the world.