> I'd love to live in the world rms lives in but most of the time free software just isn't good enough to be a viable option. I've made this argument before my

> I'd love to live in the world rms lives in but most of the time free software just isn't good enough to be a viable option. I've made this argument before myself, but I wonder how true it really is. The reality is, in 2016, that it's easy to assemble a free software environment that's far above and beyond anything I'd have had access to back when I started computing. It's true that that fit and finish of the best 2016 FOSS software doesn't match the fit and finish of the 2016 proprietary software, but in many ways, it's more than match for 1995 era software. While that may seem like faint praise, it was easily possible to do good, significant work in that kind of environment.