Now I'm not trying to bash Stallman or the FSF, they have made some wonderful contributions to the community.
Made some wonderful contributions to the community? Dude, Stallman and the FSF started the community. A very significant portion of every Linux distribution (the GNU toolchain and other GNU utilities) was created by Stallman and the rest of the GNU Projet and FSF.
Stallman is a visionary leader, and he reacts radically. But, in a time in which nobody gives a damn about anybody's rights, radical actions/licenses are neccesary. I was quite impressed when I read the text of the draft GPL v. 3.
Eclipse is bloated as hell. It is better to use a text editor like emacs than a massive ide like Eclipse.
As far as what language to learn, it really doesn't matter either way, as a programmer is able to learn new programming languages easily, so you will likely learn both eventually. I've never done any C# programming, but Java programmign is a lot of fun (there is a huge, rich api to use), so I would personally recommend it.
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Eclipse is bloated as hell. It is better to use a text editor like emacs than a massive ide like Eclipse. As far as what language to learn, it really doesn't matter either way, as a programmer is able to learn new programming languages easily, so you will likely learn both eventually. I've never done any C# programming, but Java programmign is a lot of fun (there is a huge, rich api to use), so I would personally recommend it.
Eclipse is bloated as hell. It is better just to use an editor like emacs or vi.