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If by that you mean advocating the banning of proprietary software, I don't know that they've done so. They do advocate that governments exclusively use and pro
by djur 12y ago
If by that you mean advocating the banning of proprietary software, I don't know that they've done so. They do advocate that governments exclusively use and promote free software[1]. Some of their publications also refer to their "goal of ending the injustice of nonfree software", and that distributing proprietary software is "unethical" and "mistreats" users[2].
EDIT: My interpretation of Stallman's politics is that he would happily support legislation to forbid nonfree software, but I think the FSF intentionally avoids the subject for the sake of their libertarian supporters.
[1]: https://gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html https://gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html
[2]: https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important...
- hga 12y agoIndeed, RMS circa the early-mid '80s---like, when we were roommates precisely when he started the GNU project in September 1983---would have been entirely happy to have proprietary software banned. I doubt his position has changed since then. He was a big fan of Hugo Chávez.... He was also, a while after the start (like 1985), very harsh with "Software Hoarders" like myself who then worked on non-copyleft software.