You're response is funny to me. It's funny because, and I know this sounds arrogant but I am 100%, 100% right and anyone that is both intelligent and honest can

You're response is funny to me. It's funny because, and I know this sounds arrogant but I am 100%, 100% right and anyone that is both intelligent and honest can see this. I'm not right because I'm smart, I'm right because I have common sense. You're making this typical naive morally indignant response about promoting scarcity blah blah blah. You may be a person totally devoid of self interests but the fact is most people are not. I'm sorry Virginia. Now let us please recognize the fact that people were never stopped from following RMS moral truth throughout the history of technological innovation. Yet, many people have labored for you to have these fancy things like Teflon, integrated circuits, CT machines, all manner of strange, complicated things. We don't have a lot of evidence of great technological innovation occurring under some sort of quasi Marxist (not meant derigatorily) paradigm that was not spurred because of some desire to win a nuclear arms race or equivalent. It's just horribly naive. As far as the self-righteousness about like "we are to create value" and your strawman game ... Are you seriously suggesting programmers are worthless. =) No, I know you want donations or something and then will jibber jabber about how we all should learn to live with less, I'm not sure. I'll be honest I don't know what you're reaction but this response is hard to take seriously. You think the modern world would really fell out of Stallman's world view? You think society would really work that way? If you do, I think you are seriously misguided about reality. It may be true that Stallman is morally right, but, trust me, no one really wants to live in that world (well sure, if you've ever seen that show "Taboo" there are some out-there people, but keys get real). I will say this, your position, if it were to take hold, would be an interesting and fun, if devastating, way to shut up all those people that blather on about how "everyone needs to learn to code" ... Although if this RMS moral view took hold in the past we wouldn't have to worry about that in the first place.