Your arguments are not true, frankly. Examples: Regarding hardware support, there is no guarantee that a particular configuration of hardware and software is

Your arguments are not true, frankly. Examples: Regarding hardware support, there is no guarantee that a particular configuration of hardware and software is going to work just because you were forced to pay for it. "Improved Stability" is a lie that commercial software vendors have been spinning for years. I've been building computers for decades and even using brand name parts, compatibility issues, particularly with proprietary drivers, have often been a problem and that has continued to this day. At least in the case of Debian, there are now free generic drivers for many devices, which are not entirely worthless, which actually improves compatibility. Regarding The Gimp vs Photoshop, I've recently decided to ditch photoshop in favor of the Gimp and I am still learning so I can't speak as if I were a Gimp Expert, but based on things I've read from people who are, The Gimp is just as capable as Photoshop, but the toolset and workflow is slightly different (and that is intentional). There are some things missing that are represented in photoshop, for example inset shadows in photoshop are trivially easy to create, and in The Gimp require about 2 or 3 additional clicks. That isn't because photoshop costs $600, and it isn't why photoshop costs $600. Most of the $600 from each sale of photoshop is not going to the developers who create it. Stallman's "rhetoric" is extreme sometimes but so what, that just gives him character. If you set aside your personal whimpering and examine his points objectively, he is 100% right about everything. When there exists an unsolved problem, the _right_ answer is to program a solution. Buying closed-source proprietary solutions is not the right answer, not when you look at the grander scale and consider the long term social effects of these two options. Stallman is right, and I think when people don't like that it's because they're afraid of what it means.