i saw or read another interview with stallman years ago. interesting guy and i agree with most of what he says. a couple areas i find problematic are stallman’s optimistic views of capitalism being workable without it going to extremes. i don’t know his full views on this, or his reasoning, so maybe my take of them is off. the extremes we see now in capitalism are the way capitalism always goes. big fish eat little, power gets concentrated. democracy and choice are incompatible with capitalism.

the second area was stallman’s characterisation of ddos attacks as a form of protest (max interview). comparing ddos to picketing outside a business or government building. that analogy is off. for it to be on, the protest would have to enter the building and prevent others entering the building. ddos attacks are usually not done by protesters, but by governments and organised groups for the purpose of blocking a site from being used. it’s vandalism, not protest. it’s a way of blocking access to a site to prevent people using it.

“Dis a policeman, Dis a Policeman, Dis a Policeman keep on kicking me in the fucking head.”