This article confuses the issue of preferring walking, biking, and mass transit to owning a car with the issue of software freedom. The former is still based on

This article confuses the issue of preferring walking, biking, and mass transit to owning a car with the issue of software freedom. The former is still based on ownership of sneakers and bikes. More importantly, it's not the same issue as proprietary software licenses that prevent users from running software as they see fit. I think RMS would be happy to see such a piece about the importance of software freedom in such a mainstream publication. It's too bad that they didn't fully research it and tie these issues back to the disappearance of general computing from our lives, but it's great to see this issue getting wider exposure in the mainstream media even if it is slightly dumbed down for the masses. RMS has been writing about this issue for decades (1) and it most certainly is one of the biggest issues of our time. (1) https://www.fsf.org/ https://www.fsf.org/