Originally posted by Luke_Wolf
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I believe in what the FSF stands for. But I also think that their strategy is ineffective. They view "free as in freedom" software licensing as a black and white issue, and think any use of proprietary software is as unacceptable as saying, "But we only torture some toddlers, so it's okay." The problem is, they can't even get most of the open source community to join them, let alone the broader tech industry. And the rest of the world doesn't even care to know enough about the issues to have an opinion.
How do you fix that? If every person in the world that paid $50 for a copy of Windows (without realizing it, in most cases), OS X, or iOS had put $10 into free software, proprietary software around the world would be dead by now. But I'm more likely to get a wish for a pet unicorn granted than to have that happen.
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