sure, but I would recommend to keep reading in any case - Stallman is perhaps more 'pure' or 'left' than most of us on software rights, but I think his worldvie

sure, but I would recommend to keep reading in any case - Stallman is perhaps more 'pure' or 'left' than most of us on software rights, but I think his worldview is interesting and he does raise worthy points. It could be we are thanking him in 30 years, or moaning that we didn't listen more. I certainly feel the software user agreements are far more onerous than I would have expected 20 years ago.. and the surveillance more extreme. I wish I had listened more then to what Stallman had to say. Even if almost all programmers believe that they should have the right to run any software on devices which they own - we don't seem to have any organised political / legal movement that would bring that into law - large companies have almost all the power. How can we make sure that web apps aren't also censored on mobile devices in future? If Apple or Google decided to do that, the small user base doesn't have much power to fight back, and yet we all would have lost an important freedom.