Richard Stallman answers your top 25 questions.

"1. corevette: If you could have one proprietary package/software released as Free Software, which would it be and why?

"RMS: I have not made an effort to study the possible candidates, since unless a genie offers me a wish of that kind, the results wouldn't enable me do anything constructive. Thus, I can only respond based on the few proprietary programs I happen by chance to know about.

"Of the programs I know of, I think freeing Autocad would give the biggest boost to the free software community. It is used in a wide range of activities, and our CAD software lags quite a bit,"

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