You heard that? "Pretty good with computers" ... that must really mean something, especially coming from a (car dealership) manager.
Then, of course, we have this little gem:

So he accessed the website (using his password, no hacking required here) from his home? Without even bothering with Tor?
"Pretty good", but not good enough.

The FSF's purpose is to advocate the use of Free Software. While they will argue that you should use free software exclusively, and choose to do this themselves, they do not insist that users of free software, or GNU contributors do the same.

What you speak of is a different (non)issue. The FSF won't stop you from running proprietary software, you have the freedom to do so (unless your computer runs an operating system that doesn't respect that freedom).

One could argue that a free operating system that prevented you from running proprietary software would contradict freedom 0 (run and use the program for any purpose) and thus be non-free.

Are you confusing Mono with Wine? Mono is an implementation of the Common Language Runtime and .NET libraries. Very few games are written purely in .NET, and many will invoke native Windows API calls.

Stallman's warnings about Mono are not criticisms of the languages/runtimes themselves (the language and libraries are reasonably good), but that Microsoft holds patents over aspects of the implementation that Mono almost certainly infringes on and does not have a legally binding license to use. Given Microsoft's attitude towards free software and GNU/Linux, and the patent infringement case against Tom-Tom, it would be very unwise to rely on Mono.

Well, I interpreted the word 'honour' to mean that Free Software lovers won't give you respect, not that they will violate your rights. So in one sense, they don't respect your right to write proprietary code.

Of course, I believe Stallman does respect your right to write proprietary code. If you work for a company which needs software, you write it, the company owes it, and runs it and Stallman respects that process.

It's just once you cross a 'magic' line that so many people start to misunderstand Stallman. It's when you give (or sell) that software to someone else. Is it right for you to say, "I'm going to give this software to you, but you can't run it on any computer you like, and you can't make any changes to it, you can't let anyone else look at it, and most importantly, you can't share it with anyone else.

There are a lot of people who think it is perfectly ethical to make these limitations. Stallman is not one of those people. Once you give him software, he believes he has the right to run the software for any (legal) purpose, that he has the right to modify the software to run as he wants it, and that he has the right to read the code and learn from it. And as importantly, he has the right to share the software with anyone else of his choosing. He believes he has all these *ethical* rights.

It turns out that he might not have the *legal* right to do all these things. So he follows the law, AND he follows his conscience. And he encourages others to do the right thing. And for this, he is harassed, poked fun of, and maligned. He is called crazy.

He is an idealist, and perhaps he is crazy that the ideals of freedom and of sharing can continue to thrive in the world of software. But I think he prefers to see the world as full of potential, rather than succumbing to despair and fear.

Not necessarily. The Urban Tribe of friends and a loosely knit family is not guaranteed to make you a lonely bugger at the end of your life at all. Furthermore, having the "wife & kid" (Or, if you're female the "husband & kid") combo doesn't guarantee squat, mate.

So your kid dies in a bus accident. And then you and your partner divorce because you can't stand the loss... There it is, you're alone.

Or you're married to an over-bearing Orthodox man who alienates your kids from both you and him. The man dies of lungcancer, and 10 years after that fact you're 70 yrs old and your kids come 'n' tell you they don't want to have anything to do with you anymore. Boom. You're alone.

Or you have a regular family. And your kids grow up and have their own lives. Some might move abroad, others might just have their own worries. Your partner dies. Boom. You're alone, except for the visit-a-week your kids grant you.

Perhaps you're a married man. You're making loads of money, you have a sexy wife and two kids. Then one day you and your wife try a swinger's club, and this hobby spirals out of control. Couple years later, you had one of the messiest divorces ever, you're in a lower paying job because the stress ousted you from the high paying one, you're broke, your two kids got manipulated into hating your guts by your spiteful ex, and badabing, badaboom... You're alone.

Or you are a Shakespearian actor who gets a role as the captain of a space ship. You do this for a couple of years, marry someone who after a while dies under mysterious circumstances, rinse, repeat, and you manage to alienate your children.... Alone, anyone?

Maybe you are from a normal family. Your youngest daughter dies of lung cancer at the age of 24, your oldest kid goes insane at the age of sixty, and the middle kid marries someone who's a religious nut and thus neither he nor his wife nor their children are in contact with you. Oh, your husband died 25 years ago too. Now you're 80, and except for the 60-year old in the asylum, you're....... ALONE!

These are all stories (with the exception of one, you know which) that happened in my environment, to people I know. One day you're born, and one day you'll die alone. This is inevitable. Saying that certain choices in life will give you guaranteed happiness or misery just means that you haven't understood life's nature.

"How's that working out for you?" is a valid question for everyone on the planet so get off your high horse, you self-righteous schmuck.

Winamp and utorrent are not open-source. They're freeware. There's a difference between the two, you know?

I'm sure glad they cleared things up, but I think I'm gonna need a few more examples with numbers before I can really grasp the multiplication by two.