>>3709350>I don't even know how does he keep getting away with it.until the mid 90s, Stallman's name was ridiculously respected because of his accomplishments (namely, re-implementing basically all of the standard UNIX userland, including compiler)
a lot of it is just raw inertia, and he's in a comfy position
plus, he's right about a damn lot of things (windows 10 is basically the kind of thing he was trying to warn people of, a system that does things like arbitrarily uninstall software on update, calls back home ALL the time, and basically entirely takes overall control away from the user)
>yet the GPL license which his entire movement is copyright and couldn't exist without government copyright enforcement>his definition of freedom demands the coercion of others through copyrightswithout copyright, you wouldn't need the GPL -- you could freely
admittedly, you wouldn't be able to get actual sources if not freely provided, but literally nothing is stopping you from doing reverse-engineering in that case
he's fairly self destructive towards actually making progress on his ideas though and his idea of computing is stuck in 1989
he mangles terminology (like "operating system" -- GNU is not an operating system, and piggybacking on Linux's success with the leech of a term "GNU/Linux" is decidedly non-endearing)
