There are still Stallmans, it's just much harder for a single person to have as great an impact as the various computing verticals have gained inertia. Not to d

There are still Stallmans, it's just much harder for a single person to have as great an impact as the various computing verticals have gained inertia. Not to downplay the importance of early pioneers, but a lot of success comes down to timing, being in the greenfield where your ideas can be fully realized without any prior art getting in the way, or needing to reach feature parity with the status quo. The trade off is that those pioneers had to work with very little, while we have very nice computing environments, but there are a ridiculous number of us, a lot of who are brilliant, and a lot of the great ideas are already taken.