You make a good point. Still, as enthusiastic as I am about the purity of Stallman's pure goals, let's not have the perfect be the enemy of the good. Freedom f

You make a good point. Still, as enthusiastic as I am about the purity of Stallman's pure goals, let's not have the perfect be the enemy of the good. Freedom for developers isn't hurting anyone – if anything, it has resulted in so much software that, while free, also doesn't need to be astronomically expensive. Imagine how much you would have to charge for a web app if you had to rely on non-free software only. What would a stack like that even look like? Windows, IE, ASP, IIS, Oracle, a paid UI library (or equivalent dev hours) ... the tools itself would be expensive enough to make most of the software market disappear. I'm self-employed, and I know my job wouldn't exist without free dev tools.