I meant that software can be a philosophy or a project, and where you land on this concept will inform your decision making process. I agree with your above com

I meant that software can be a philosophy or a project, and where you land on this concept will inform your decision making process. I agree with your above comment and don't find it contradictory to mine above. Some great tools for software development: * Microsoft * OS X * Linux * Free BSD To some degree that represents a spectrum and I don't fault the author for having strong beliefs about how software should be built, and agree with them for the most part. I think he could have made a stronger point generally from a philosophical and technical angle, i.e the regular arguments for open source tools, and highlight Slack as an example. IRC is quite similar to Slack, but for the reasons the author suggests, it is different. tl;dr Stallman wouldn't use Slack.