Is it naive though? Naivety is a suggestion showing a lack of wisdom or experience. Stallman has this in spades. I'd peg this as 'idealist'. To wit, imagine a

Is it naive though? Naivety is a suggestion showing a lack of wisdom or experience. Stallman has this in spades. I'd peg this as 'idealist'. To wit, imagine a world where: * Everyone has a block of static, globally routable IPs (no NAT). * Consumer broadband etc was less asymmetric, and not strangled my media conglomerates. * Everybody ran a decent operating system with a package manager that handled updates for all their software. * Server and P2P software was so easy to use that it became invisible * The Internet hadn't become synonymous with 'the Web' for most people in the 90s/early 2000s. (Remember when we used to talk about 'the Web' just like how we talk about 'the Cloud' now? That's because, as far as most people are concerned, it's the same thing.) ... in such a world, suggesting everybody run their own server doesn't seem so crazy. In fact, there's still a lot of grass-roots belief in these ideals : http://redecentralize.org/ http://redecentralize.org/