[dspeyer]

We do need RMS.

Compromise is a dangerous game. Especially when the proprietary world doesn't compromise back (and it usually doesn't). How long could the free software movement have continued to mean anything if each year it had crept a little closer to the mainstream technological community?

[cwp]

Open source isn't a compromise between free software and proprietary software. It's a different philosophical basis for advocating the same practices.

[dspeyer]

The open source movement isn't. The "proprietary software is ok so long as not much is at stake and you weren't likely to tinker with it anyway" idea is.