I didn't change what you said. You said "to see a certain vision of freedom prevail", I just shortened that for you. Stallman isn't just pursuing his own lifes

I didn't change what you said. You said "to see a certain vision of freedom prevail", I just shortened that for you. Stallman isn't just pursuing his own lifestyle, he think his lifestyle is the only valid lifestyle. OK, not exactly, but when it comes to "Free Software", he basically thinks his point of view is pretty much the only ethically acceptable one, and any attempt to make propriety software is unethical. He never intended for any part of GNU to be used in propriety software, although sometimes GNU programs get shipped with closed systems (I believe some parts of the GNU user-land get shipped with OS X). So, people who disagree with him (by opinion and by action) end up benefiting from his work, but he never actually intended that, and he would always try to circumvent that when ever possible, see: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html "What's American?" is somewhat a philosophical question, but in this context, I'm referring mainly to the part of mainstream America that encourages collecting large sums of wealth for creating technology. > What can be more American than high level science? Science is much, much older than America, and scientific research exists in many places throughout the world. > I'd think you could point to the AI lab at MIT as being a good symbol (among many) for the American contributions to science. It is. "America contributes a lot to science" is one thing, but "science is American" is a completely different thing. I'm actually sick of all the good things being attributed to America. On the international stage, America, as a country, is the biggest bully. > Starting a revolution rather than play along with it when someone gets up in your face and starts messing with your lifestyle. Funny, because when other people do that, they're called "terrorists".