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.

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.

> 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.)

I think he just forgot "unamerican"

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.

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.