Richard Stallman’s Last Interview As FSF President

Seems the great prophet has bumbled into matters where perhaps he
should have kept his mouth shut, and is now stepping down from the FSF.
But leaving that aside, this interview
<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richard_stallman_interview/>
has the usual choice nuggets on subjects he does know something about:

    One thing that has changed is that nowadays, a non-free program is
    typically malware as well. That was not the case in 1983. In 1983,
    when a proprietary software product was discovered to be malware,
    it was scandalous. It was shocking. It made the news, sort of at
    least in the tech press, because this wasn't the usual case. It
    there was a certain level of scruples, even among proprietary
    software developers.

    But over the years, those scruples have evaporated, as companies
    raced each other to the bottom in terms of mistreating their own
    users. And now, almost any non free program you run is mistreating
    you somehow.
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