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I find it odd that he choses to dump platforms that also support Windows. Manufacturers adding Windows support (realistically the other way around with Linux being supported after the fact) is about giving consumers choice in how their product runs.

I feel this is somewhat core to the FSF movement, a choice for how your computer runs. Why should Stallman criticise a company for allowing someone to pick the OS that best meets their needs? If a person picks Windows over a FOSS aligned OS then there is clearly something wrong in the feature-set or user interface of that FOSS OS.




For better or for worse, the Free Software movement has a strange notion of "choice". They believe that the user is entitled to complete control over their computer, which precludes Windows. To someone like me, that would mean that the user should be free to waive those rights and use Windows anyway, but to the FSF that somehow is an infraction. Who the victim is and who the oppressor in that case, is unclear to me.


> I feel this is somewhat core to the FSF movement, a choice for how your computer runs.

You are mistaken. RMS thinks its immoral to use or develop proprietary software regardless of anything else.




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