I had quite a heated discussion on this very issue once before 2 years ago, where the only criticism to my comments was summed up in:
1. Definition of free software
2. Richard Stallman’s accomplishments

And then the supposedly mathematical-sounding proof:
1 & 2 => Whatever you say against Stallman is wrong.

I’m much too experienced to fall into that trap where you draw me into an orthogonal argument and somehow make readers believe Stallman is right.

For all my readers, I hereby declare that I completely agree with whatever Sourav Roy has said above. I have no objections/comments on the matter.

Having said that, please take the trouble to read my critique to know that the issue I commented upon was totally orthogonal and hence still holds in my opinion. Richard Stallman does not know how social dymanics works, and his criticism of cloud computing is based on nothing more than “fairness”. I’ll bet half the “cloud” servers out there are hosted on that one document that differentiates all that Sourav above has said from others – GPL. It’s on those very servers that Stallman is commenting about. Google uses modified Linux which is GPL’d. So does Facebook.

There you go, you have the facts.

I’ll also clarify that I’m speaking very specifically on Stallman’s comments on “Cloud Computing” and not his general human-ness. I have no arguments about whether he’s a good person or a bad person. I have no arguments about whether or not he can write code. I have no arguments about what free software is, or isn’t, or benefits, or drawbacks, or security, or world governments, or aristotle, or philosophy or any of that stuff. I have a simple argument – blaming technology for the mistakes you make in signing contacts is inexcusable.