————I’m just pointing out the danger of the guy-————
You’ve gone way beyond that and into hard on territory.
This thread did not start out in any form as a stallman thread, and look where you’ve driven it.
I’m never going to let up on Stallman and his FSF/GNU organizations, he’s a green party anti-capitalist leftist that more people need to know about, so they can be on the lookout for those like him that would like to see the existing US software companies put out of business so we can all be taxed for his “free software” instead. Don’t you think other’s should know?
From “The GNU Manifesto”:
Programmers need to make a living somehow...All sorts of development can be funded with a Software Tax. Suppose everyone who buys a computer has to pay x percent of the price as a software tax. The government gives this to an agency like the NSF to spend on software development.
But if the computer buyer makes a donation to software development himself, he can take a credit against the tax. He can donate to the project of his own choosing—often, chosen because he hopes to use the results when it is done. He can take a credit for any amount of donation up to the total tax he had to pay.
The total tax rate could be decided by a vote of the payers of the tax, weighted according to the amount they will be taxed on.
The consequences:
The computer-using community supports software development.
This community decides what level of support is needed.
Users who care which projects their share is spent on can choose this for themselves.
In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the post-scarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming.