>> can’t shake the feeling that the hard line open source idealism of 1980’s has not achieved all the goals that it set out to achieve... Actually it has done

>> can’t shake the feeling that the hard line open source idealism of 1980’s has not achieved all the goals that it set out to achieve... Actually it has done quite well. Not as widespread as some would like, but I think Free Software is doing spectacularly well. I would say nobody needs Microsoft for anything these day because there are great alternative, but they are creating some decent enterprise tools that may not have free equivalents. Windows and Office though? I haven't needed those in 15 years, and that's because Free Software has achieved most of its goals.