Richard Stallman on EU Software Patents

schreibmaschine writes "Richard Stallman writes in The Guardian that the defeat of the EU directive has bought time, but that the pro-patent forces will regroup and try again."

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And here i thought he's talking about the FSF...

[daniil]

This battle has implications far beyond the software field. Our years-long fight has shown how undemocratic the EU is. It is a system in which bureaucrats can make decisions that, practically speaking, the public can never reverse.

The FSF isn't exactly a paragon of democracy, either. Even though Stallman claims to be supporting freedom, the way he does it is more akin to a dictatorship (and the FSF is a great example of how a bureaucratic state-in-state does not really function too well -- it's been 20 years now, but the GNU OS is still not in sight (Stallman's putting GNU in front of Linux does not count as creating a working GNU operating system)). This was clearly illustrated by the first version of Eric S. Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", directed against Stallman's way of running things.

You've got to ask yourself, is it really freedom Stallman's after, or is it some sort of a bizarre society of anonymous zombies, all working for free (free as in 'no beer') under his command.