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Virtually every negative effect the likes of RMS and the FSF have predicted when it comes to not using free software has come true.

And yet more people are enjoying more content and more benefits from technology than at any point in human history.

Sometimes content creation industries screw up in how they treat their customers, and it's good to realise that and to fix it when it happens.

Sometimes people take advantage of secrecy, and they should be called on it and punished for it, by market forces or laws or both.

However, the general FSF/RMS/GPL3 "everything must be free" philosophy seems counterproductive to me, because it denies the middle ground where most useful things actually happen and most real progress gets made. They're throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and then the bath after it, and then knocking down the house because it wasn't built with the appropriately sourced bricks and living in a mud hut. How is that going to keep the baby cleaner?