Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
A few points i would like to remind everyone who criticizes rms.<p>1) rms is a radical guy. You cannot change that. He fights for what he thinks is right. He is not the kind of person you can ask to censor himself.<p>If he thinks u.s goverment is to blame for 9/11, no matter how saying it in a lecture seems childish, he will say it.<p>If you invite rms for a lecture, he is coming with his radicalism. That is to be expected. You cannot invite rms and expect steve jobs.<p>2) rms is a practical guy. stop acting like he's a mad man who knows nothing. He started GNU, wrote emacs, glibc, gcc and probably others. He created the concept of free software and wrote a license as good as GPL to defend it.<p>He also managed to gather a community around this very crazy idea of free software.<p>3) rms doesnt want people only to use free software. he wants people to value their freedom, and as a result of that, use free software.<p>It doesnt really matter if whole world uses android instead of ios. The point is, these days, most people involved in open source community, do not even care about free software and the freedom it offers.<p>Most people are interested in technological advancements or affects of an open source project on market. None of them are concerns for rms.<p>And, what i said above is just what i interpreted from his actions and are not facts.