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If it weren't for Google and Apple (and microsoft, of course) and everybody used computers the way RMS wanted them to, there would be a lot less people using computers.

I've got a lot of respect for RMS. What he does is important, and i want him to keep fighting for what he believes in. I just don't want him to win. We're all better for the opposition between the corporate interests driving forward usability and inclusiveness, and the philisophical interests pushing openness and ethics and impractical idealism.



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