I take minor aim a this part: "but what people care about most today is about the production of software. Software licences regulate distribution, but cannot r

I take minor aim a this part: "but what people care about most today is about the production of software. Software licences regulate distribution, but cannot regulate production. (technically they can, but practically, they can’t. I get into this below.)" Interestingly, I did not see the part where he really gets into this. Speaking of history, I think one thing is forgotten here: before open source, how did you produce software?? By buying closed source software, of course! So, this is the catch-22. You claim they care about the production of software, but without open source tools, you would then be at the mercy of closed source systems in order to build your software. I am not saying it is bad, but I would have never really gotten into software without GNU... Turbo-C from Mix software was cheap, but the others were too far out of reach. One day I woke up and the tools were too expensive. I don't think we want to go back there... to the same place our phones are in now.