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> As much as I’d love free software to be popular for being free, that’s never been the case and is increasingly unlikely to ever become the case. Why don't yo

• danpalmer 6y ago
  Because it’s hard to explain what “free” means. Licencing isn’t something that most people are aware, so explaining why some software is better than others on that basis isn’t easy. This has been an issue since the 80s at least, and hasn’t worked yet. Arguably more people are more aware of computing now, but they’re also doing almost all of it within closed ecosystems.
  • ryukafalz 6y ago
    I think the only way we’ll get people to really care about free software is to build functionality that really only works if the software is free. For example: https://blog.printf.net/articles/2006/10/29/the-view-source-key/ https://blog.printf.net/articles/2006/10/29/the-view-source-...