As a fellow idealist, I feel the battle has shifted to online services, and it may actually be much more significant there than it ever was for desktops. After

As a fellow idealist, I feel the battle has shifted to online services, and it may actually be much more significant there than it ever was for desktops. After all, looking back I can't easily point at actual harms created by (for example) photoshop's proprietary nature. But it's almost universally accepted that there's a danger in the walled gardens of Facebook or Google. I'm hoping that the idealists will be able to defend/create open protocols and networks. There have been some successes, mostly when it was in the interest of industry heavyweights as well (i. e. Apple killing flash, html5 takings its place). Currently endangered is E-Mail and essentially dead is personal publishing.