What exactly is has RMS been right about? That closed source software will be used for all kinds of evil purposes? Well no shit sherlock! No one anywhere has ev

What exactly is has RMS been right about? That closed source software will be used for all kinds of evil purposes? Well no shit sherlock! No one anywhere has ever made the argument that closed source is a good idea because it allows people to do bad things with software. The argument for closed source software (and indeed intellectual property in general) is that it incentivizes creation by giving creators a means to profit from their ideas. Now RMS of course has his own arguments on that point, which is great. But, my point is that predicting that people will sometimes do bad things with closed source software doesn't make you a prophet. It means you have an IQ above 15. It would be like if I "predicted" that baseball bats would be used for violence and then every time a crime was committed with a baseball bat, everyone was all like, "oh, he was right again about the bats!" Everyone everywhere knows that bats are sometimes abused for violence. That's not foresight, it's common sense.