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> Not to make RMS happy, but to protect savvy consumers from monumentally idiotic Hrrm ... that was RMS's point, way back when, with some printer, if memory se

• slowpoke 15y ago
  I think that's exactly what your parent meant (or at least my interpretation of it). Some people might not (want to) believe it but there's actually a whole lot of very valid reasoning behind what RMS is advocating. We shouldn't desire open systems because RMS said so, we should do it because of what he said.