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Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction by vedang on Sunday October 30, 2011 @01:14AM (#3173701)
"Stallman wishes for there to be no other choices" I sprayed out my tea all over the keyboard! Seriously?
Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction by eropple on Sunday October 30, 2011 @01:53AM (#3173751)
Yes, seriously. Stallman holds that it's immoral and unacceptable (in the world he would create) to have non-Free software. There are no exceptions.

Stallman desires to take away my choice to create (and implicitly, to use) software that doesn't meet his ideological vision of "Free" software. I reject that desire in toto; I do not presume to tell other developers of software what restrictions they may place upon software they right, just as I reject their attempts to do the same to me.

(Stallman's inability to fulfill his desire does not exculpate him from the moral failure of that desire.)