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by h2odragon 1686 days ago
I'd suggest "It's time to move past the FSF" as a title, because the clickbait title you have isn't really the thrust of your essay, is it? "Free Software" as an idea has succeeded so well that there is hardly any paid software market extant anymore. It has succeeded so well that "source availability" is something we take for granted rather than something you'd have to negotiate hard to get and sign NDAs and shit.

"Free Software can do more," certainly. To say its failed is to ignore all the triumphs that have led us to today where you can take those for granted and ask "what have you done for me lately?

"Besides the roads, aqueducts, legal system, security from raiders, and the wine... What has Rome ever done for us?"

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"Free software has failed!" he cried, on a platform that operates on free software, that wouldn't exist without free software, whose access is facilitated by free software, read by users of free software, in a world that free software helped build.