[GauntletWizard]

The first half of the post is RMS's usual loaded rant on what 'freedom' means. He's a weird brand of anarchocommunist, and axiomatically doesn't believe in running any code that you can't see the source to and haven't compiled yourself. That sets him up to start off most of his rants that might otherwise have a point with a bunch of bullshit that we've all seen and laughed at before.

[click170]

> that we've all seen and laughed at before

Let's be fair, he's been right about a LOT of things. Things that we did laugh at him for saying.

Maybe we shouldn't have laughed so hard.

[macspoofing]

I like him around just because he expands the Overton window. In the last 10 years the conversion around proprietary (which includes web and mobile apps) vs. open-source software has really taken a back-seat.