The way I see it, Stallman is an end user freedom maximalist with end user roughly meaning person sitting in front of a computer using software. Thinking like t

The way I see it, Stallman is an end user freedom maximalist with end user roughly meaning person sitting in front of a computer using software. Thinking like this, any obstacle blocking a user from complete control of the computation on the computer is evil. This of course completely disregards the notion of computers having owners. Unfortunately, we are currently way way in the other direction, with owners being deprived of control over owned devices by manufacturers and vendors.