I think it is wrong to constantly think about large companies like Microsoft. Most proprietary software is not made by Microsoft, but by smaller companies. If Stallman would talk only about large companies - sure, that would be a different conversation. But he is talking about proprietary software as a class. I don't see him making this distinction anywhere.
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's nice that restaurants and farmers were mentioned, but when
thinking about proprietary software by companies that big as Microsoft,
a better analogy would be a comparison with Monsanto.
Replication-incompetent proprietary seeds, sold in combination with the
required poisons that kill bees, humans, more or less everything,
excepted of the monster plants. And now the bomb drops, it's forbidden
to safe old seeds and to give them away for free or for less money,
without paying for EU licenses. "Randomly" those EU licenses only could
be paid by big companies. Another valid comparison would be with food
speculation done by big banks, so that starvation death becomes a
profitable business model. The ideals of RMS could be a starting point
for reflection. If you disagree with those ideals, because you e.g.
think that they are unworldly, ok, but it's still a leap from
disagreeing with RMS, to claims about Microsoft, a 10^12 $ capital
range "company", not being evil on purpose.
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