Richard Stallman answers top 25 questions of reddit.com readers

The American Free Software activist Richard Stallman is answering users questions about FSF (Free Software Foundation) GNU/Linux, personal political views and preferences and more.

• If you could have one proprietary package/software released as Free Software, which would it be and why?
• Do you regret the harsh tone you've dished out to so many people over all that time?
• Do you regret the marginalization of Lisp? Do you think that more efforts should be made to introduce Lisp into the GNU system, or is that an idea whose time has passed?
• Why hasn't GNU or the FSF tried to make a market ("app store") for Free Software?
• What's your favorite movie?
• What's your stance on proprietary closed-source software that is created with the goal of being released under the GPL once a pre-specified profit margin has been met?
• Have we hit Peak GPL?
• Looking back over the last 25-odd years, what is the FSF's biggest success (and mistake)?
• What things would you like to see CS students learning? What books are on your "recommended reading" list?
• At what point will you consider yourself to have "won"? To put this another way, I hear that you don't hack anymore because you're too busy advocating for free software. What events would have to arise for you to be able to go back to hacking?
• How do you deal with the seemingly endless stream of ad hominem attacks relating to your communication style, choice of clothing, grooming, etc., instead of the substance of the issues you're addressing?
• Are you still at all optimistic about HURD, or would you agree that that ship has sailed?
• How can we apply the concepts of free software development to the upcoming biological revolution of synthetic and hybrid organisms?
• Would you rather shop for food at a local co-op rather than a big mega mart?
• Is Free Software compatible and indeed conductive to Anarchism ? Are you aware of it and if so, do you think that the political implications of Free Software are a bug or a feature?
• What's the best book you have ever read?
• Should the FSF play a bigger role in promoting software developer education in the primary school system in order to enculture Free Software ideals?
• Where do you feel proprietary software still has advantages over its closest [free] competitor and what should we be doing in free software to overcome this?
• You won't use Skype, because it's a "non-free" means of communication?
• Are there reasons for everyone else to be this cautious about our online presence (besides the regular caution when using Google, Facebook, etc.)?
   

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