and alvin and today my guest on the program is richard stallman. the computer world is divided in two confronting camps with two totally different thoughts on the one side the corporations which sell programs and gain big bets on the other the people who believe that software must be free. form all based dominates the market yet please software products are starting to be commercial how can this help why isn't the market always working properly and the software world poor asking the number one person in the free software movement to true computer genius who has always confronted business with steve jobs and validates spotlight gives you a unique opportunity to hear your questions also directly by richard stallman a programmer turned philosopher. richard stallman sas the purpose of his career is to come pain for users writes back in the seventy's he was a product a programmer and a part of the newly born hacker community he could have continued in a software developer career but an attempt to introduce a. real operating system made it through. the l

it finds were running changing and redistributing computer programs without charge thanks to richard stallman and his brands most commercial software has. stallman himself believes in a static line of lectures and promotes his philosophy around the globe. i will richard welcome to the show and thank you very much for being with us well first of all you just when you were listening to that intro you said that it's a mistake to confront free software and commercial right want what because these are two unrelated questions the program is free or proprietary depending on whether the users control the program or the program controls the users whether the program is commercial or not that's a totally different question it's commercial if it's developed as part of a business there are businesses that develop free software and there are individuals that make proprietary software it isn't necessarily commercial also resort where means free as in freedom it's not a matter of price free software is often available gratis but not necessarily you can sell copies you're free to sell copies and proprietary