The Divide Between Free Software and Hackers

Stallman begins from the position of wanting to guarantee collective freedom. But his tactics are then all about guaranteeing individual freedom, he says. Stallman: "The only freedom that matters is that the individual subject has the ability to view the source or to alter the source of the program" It feels like in his head there's this divide between what's political and what's within the realm of being dealt with by free software and like hackers. That divide is itself like this very, you know, kind of arbitrary construct.