Comment Re:Shortest version (Score 1) 326
The proper word for what RMS advocates is not free. It's public. He wants software to be strictly a public endevour, like a public park, or a public school.
Wrong. I can't change the "public park" according to my private wishes.
If you really want to call some software public, then it must be proprietary software because the government can send people to Microsoft or Apple any time and request them to spy on users, let them hack into computers, etc. - The Windows or iOS ecosystem is in that way just like a public park.
Free software is much more private than that because it is not controlled by a corporation which can be forced to do the government's bidding.
Note, there's nothing wrong with having public parks or schools. I take exception to the idea that we should have *only* public land and public schools.
In fact there is a lot wrong for public schools, and they are one of the things the state should immediately get out of. (and public schools among central banking was one of the planks in the communist manifesto, BTW.) But that is another topic altogether.