The problem for Free Software advocates, is that they 'won' but that's also brought about a change in 'communities' make-up. The key quote is in the first sent

The problem for Free Software advocates, is that they 'won' but that's also brought about a change in 'communities' make-up. The key quote is in the first sentence "Once upon a time FOSS was about Freedom": this simply isn't the case for many users of FOSS (and I mean people who use code that is under an open source license which covers those that are FSF compliant and others). The winning part if landing up with many more users, and many more creators both personal and in a professional context - it feels unarguable to me that there's more active FOSS than at any time before. The user-base has simply changed, everyone can use FOSS not just the technical elite and/or fringe. And FOSS is active in areas I never considered. But ... if you care about the values/philosophy behind Free Software then you may dislike the fact that the core philosophy hasn't made it across to a substantial (majority?) of users. But, in terms of providing users with the core freedoms (e.g altering/copying) it's certainly a win.