[olau]

FSF has always been about the users. And that has always been controversial among developers. I remember talking to my brother about it around 1999.

The basic premise is relatively simple - with no insight in something very complex, you're at the mercy of the creators of that complexity.

Doesn't that sounds nice, as a developer? It's a power struggle, really.

Regarding certification: I think you have this situation backwards. Developers will easily see through and gravitate to the project that's more friendly and open. The very examples you mention - people see through that and the companies end up getting negative PR in developer circles, despite releasing the code.

Those who have a problem in this game is again the users - they don't understand what's going on, but they might have lost a great deal of the power that the open source was supposed to give back to them, it's locked in behind the wall that the code is thrown over.