[Trisquel-users] Re : Stallman on the Linux Action Show

[magicbanana]

I'm not going to repeat what I said in heavy detail either (and I am tired of  
providing links you ignore), but:

Richard Stallman is *not* "using the FSF as a way to pay his flights". His  
flights are paid by who is inviting him to give a talk. And rms uses these  
talks to raise quite a lot of money for the FSF (auction, sell of goodies,  
etc.).
"Richard Stallman would never speak at Google I/O" because he would never be  
invited in the first place. If he would, I strongly believe that he would go  
and speak... about the privacy problems Google+ raise, the even greater  
problem of SaaS (Google Docs being the best example), etc. When you are  
subversive, you are not invited anywhere. I assume you would prefer Stallman  
not to be subversive. I certainly would not. The large companies already are  
far too powerful (politically) and people need to take the power back. It  
will never happen if you only consider talks "authorized by" Google and other  
mega-corporations.
Richard Stallman has spoken numerous times to very large audiences (for  
instance, the LinuxWorld Summit as displayed in the movie "RevolutionOS").  
Besides, I really do not like the tone of your sentence "small groups, at a  
university, or some small country" (maybe because I am an academics in a  
country that is not the USA, hence probably "small" in your way of thinking).
Richard Stallman does not "hate capitalism", the economic theory (but I  
assume you make a confusion between "Republicans" and "Capitalism").
Richard Stallman should be "taken seriously". Do you remember who wrote, in  
1983, that he would start alone a complete operating system (not only  
"programming tools") that would be free? It is not only a technical  
performance but a political one too.
Today, the free software movement counts tens (hundreds?) of thousands of  
developers. Thousands for the GNU project alone. The movement lacks people  
like rms brilliantly explaining (you write "rambling" but it looks useful  
since you keep on pretending he says things he does not) the ethical  
motivations that started it all. The Free Software movement is not technical  
but, yes, ethical, social and political.