Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.
Yeah of-course. He doesn’t use money because banknote were designed with proprietary software. He doesn’t use private nor public transportation because they all run on proprietary software and better yet he doesn’t even have any clothes because well… you guessed it, proprietary on the supply chain. He can’t even go to a hospital because medical equipment are the worst when it comes to free software.
Do you realize how your previous logic (as his) doesn’t work?
You’ve to trust the govt at some point, it plays an important part on keeping society functioning. It isn’t perfect as we all know but we’ve democracies and some kind of accountability in order to keep things somehow acceptable.
Again I’m not saying his core beliefs aren’t good, I’m saying the way he things they should be achieved and the delivery is bad.
He doesn’t run proprietary software himself. If other people use it, that is their problem. There is nothing we can do about it other than educating them. All the things you have mentioned could easily work with Free Software. So if everyone wanted to stop using proprietary software, we could replace it with free alternatives (or develop new ones if needed). There is nothing impossible about this.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to blindly trust the government. We need to have public oversight. Besides, there is no place for trust in computer security. If you have to have trust in some system, it is not secure.