What Stallman needs is perspective. He lives in a world of absolutes. "They are the devils, we are the holy warriors!" logic does not apply to anything and everything, including software. There are no rights or wrongs in the way Apple, Microsoft and GNU do business/provide their services/software. They are just different in their approach.
GNU, and Stallmans philosophy, could not have sold the number of machines Apple has been able to sell in the last decade, just because of the fact that a normal person in the street does not care if iPhone was scam to surround them in a walled garden. A normal person in the street wants stuff to work, and look pretty, which the iPhone did.
Apple is successful because Jobs related to the general public, providing them with what they thought was cool. Nothing wrong in that. General public doesn't give a damn about deeper philosophy, about openness, and about walled gardens until they get a raid from RIAA for piracy or they get sued. In this world, you make a living not by uplifting people, but by selling people what they want and need.
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What Stallman needs is perspective. He lives in a world of absolutes. "They are the devils, we are the holy warriors!" logic does not apply to anything and everything, including software. There are no rights or wrongs in the way Apple, Microsoft and GNU do business/provide their services/software. They are just different in their approach. GNU, and Stallmans philosophy, could not have sold the number of machines Apple has been able to sell in the last decade, just because of the fact that a normal person in the street does not care if iPhone was scam to surround them in a walled garden. A normal person in the street wants stuff to work, and look pretty, which the iPhone did. Apple is successful because Jobs related to the general public, providing them with what they thought was cool. Nothing wrong in that. General public doesn't give a damn about deeper philosophy, about openness, and about walled gardens until they get a raid from RIAA for piracy or they get sued. In this world, you make a living not by uplifting people, but by selling people what they want and need.