I doubt that proprietary software will ever really go away, but I think that its importance will diminish over time as the heap of free software grows ever larg

I doubt that proprietary software will ever really go away, but I think that its importance will diminish over time as the heap of free software grows ever larger. Over time the issue of freedom in the digital domain has become increasingly important. Today perhaps more than ever there are an array of forces who are trying to snatch away people's control over their own computing and put it into the hands of highly centralised technocrats, usually by dangling the carrot of convenience. The personal computer is in danger of no longer being personal.