David,
I have never attacked Stallman as a person. I have focused only on his views.
I am not saying that the freedoms are completely arbitrary. But basing it on one's personal experience like his story with the printer is not enough. I mean, based on my experience I can create a Freedom To Not Be Misinterpreted. I can base it completely on this conversation when instead of asking me questions you just assume that I personally attack Stallman or believe some ridiculous claims that you them easily overturn.
The difficulty of the task Stallman has put himself up for is that he doesn't argue that the freedoms should apply to his life, he tries to argue that they should apply to everybody's life. And this is a completely different argument, with broad consequences. I need more than Stallman's personal stories to validate that.
If you look at the facts he brings up, my research has revealed most of them to be false. You can read an extremely detailed analysis with links to sources, facts and even scientific research where possible which shows many of his claims of proprietary abuse to be false, overstated or simply a result of misunderstanding of what Stallman was reading.
The section is long, but it is worth it, because it deals directly with Stallman's claims.
So, how can I agree that Stallman's freedoms are important when the problem he tries to solve has to be painstakingly spun and misquoted and misinterpreted to make it sound like a real problem?
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