Wow, I took some time to listen to the podcast linked a few postings ago.
Maaaaan, Stallman, you need to smoke less off this strange weed every
morning.....
Don't get me wrong...
From a puristic standpoint many of the things he rises are valid but in the
end they do not stand up the practical life.
He is not really a prophet as one stated before. He is more some sort of
fundamentalist and extremist.
What all his point of view really lacks: Pratical approaches to solve the
known issues !
I can also rise valid points which needs to be changed ASAP:
- There should be no nuclear power plants
- No one in the world should starve from hunger while other peoples produce
car fuel from food.
- Most people in so-called modern society are wasting way to much energy. We
should reduce our ecological foot print.
- We should not waste fossil fuels anymore.
- We should get rid of the massive usage of plastic.
- We should live more self-sufficient and work in local companies in our
community.
- We should ride everywhere by bicycle instead of taking the car.
I could go on for hours with this but in the end: Those points are worthless
unless I have a solid approach on how to change things.
I found one comment also funny here: That people are not motivated by money.
Well then...from what are they motivated ?
Don't get me wrong: I would love to spent my time on more useful things than
sitting in the office for 5x9 hours each week.
May be teaching children or working on free software but since I have to pay
morgage, utility bills and so on, what do you thinks "motivates" me ?
Well...pure money !
Even worse: I earn my few bucks at a company which writes propritary
software. Unethical...I should drop this job immediatly and try to get a
different job....but wait....I simply need to get one of this jobs out there
where I write free software.....but where are those jobs ?
The sad truth is simple: Idealists and fundamentalist often share the same
thing which I call real-world perception disorder.
Stalman sounds as if the FSF put freedom of software about pretty much
anything. Sorry, this does drive my boat. Every decision we do in real live,
has some result. Thankfully in the end everyone has to choose for
him-/herself.
Enough written,
D$
