"Free Software" has failed as a movement specifically because it does not threaten capital. The FSF's strategy for liberating computing from megacorps was a somewhat restrictive license that weakly defends a very narrow set of apolitical values, and neoliberal faith in the power of consumer choice. There is no serious, well-funded voice for liberated computing today. Neither Torvalds nor Stallman are radicals. Microsoft won, and it did it with the implicit assistance of the FOSS partisans.
I do not respect the FSF nor the OSI, yes, that is correct.
The fossil fuel industry is an excellent metaphor actually, It is winning. It continues to win. The propagation of "green" alternatives has done nothing to slow it down. Cap and trade has not slowed it down. Numerous international agreements that NGOs have pushed for and that have been signed and summarily ignored by partner nations have done nothing to slow it down. Lib green politics has only served to give cover to governments that need to pretend that they're doing something.
"Free Software" has failed as a movement specifically because it does not threaten capital. The FSF's strategy for liberating computing from megacorps was a somewhat restrictive license that weakly defends a very narrow set of apolitical values, and neoliberal faith in the power of consumer choice. There is no serious, well-funded voice for liberated computing today. Neither Torvalds nor Stallman are radicals. Microsoft won, and it did it with the implicit assistance of the FOSS partisans.
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I do not respect the FSF nor the OSI, yes, that is correct.
The fossil fuel industry is an excellent metaphor actually, It is winning. It continues to win. The propagation of "green" alternatives has done nothing to slow it down. Cap and trade has not slowed it down. Numerous international agreements that NGOs have pushed for and that have been signed and summarily ignored by partner nations have done nothing to slow it down. Lib green politics has only served to give cover to governments that need to pretend that they're doing something.