Yeah that's what i thought, the article is confusing freedom with safety. So what if the majority of their users want safety instead of freedom, why don't the

Yeah that's what i thought, the article is confusing freedom with safety. So what if the majority of their users want safety instead of freedom, why don't they make their own foundation? Should Toyota start making chocolate because their users like chocolate? > The FSF failed to inspire new leaders I thought this has to do more with the sociology of software developers. They are rich now, most of them immigrants with different ambitions, they are going for fast money and early retirement. Easy money makes it hard to grow the idealist in them Also i think the author has a limited view of freedom. Most people don't have a use for their freedoms, that's true and human reality. But those marginal, extreme freedoms should be available to the few who will use them to expand the human frontier.