I do honestly agree that the FSF position has weakened over the years. I personally am more IP-liberation minded, but I more generally want some apparatus wher

I do honestly agree that the FSF position has weakened over the years. I personally am more IP-liberation minded, but I more generally want some apparatus whereby I can inspect, modify, and reuse the software running on physical devices I own in totality. Its better for society as a whole to be information-positive than negative in the general case, and that applies to IP in general as well. The FSF has made way too many compromises over the years about, say, hard drive firmware or monitor firmware or "single use device" firmware to be ideologically rigorous. If a device is in such a condition that you cannot modify code running on it, the impetus should be to move towards mandating devices be reprogrammable - even if it means desoldering a chip and reprogramming it via FPGA. To this day I'm not entirely sure where such an ideology should fall, but the general availability of all code in use combined with other societal improvements like a minimum standard of living would enable users to improve their own devices collaboratively and organically. Its how almost all learning and innovation in the past came about, before we siloed ourselves off in private to try to outrace the lowest hanging fruit against everyone else in tandem with wanton waste of time and resources to capitalize on artificial state scarcity apparatuses as a source of profit. Its really gross to think about.