> I am not saying that a toll road is worse than no road at all. That would be true if the toll were so great that hardly anyone used the road—but this is an u

> I am not saying that a toll road is worse than no road at all. That would be true if the toll were so great that hardly anyone used the road—but this is an unlikely policy for a toll collector. With "toll road" as a metaphor for "proprietary software," it seems like the current situation requires an even more radical stance than Stallman could have envisioned back then, because software companies today aren't content with merely operating in a socially suboptimal way. Instead, many now have a net negative impact on society: through spying, engineered addiction, echo chambers, etc. For instance, I think society would be better off if Facebook simply ceased to exist, even if it wasn't replaced by some type of privacy-protecting alternative and everyone just had to go back to email and personal home pages.