I believe in free software as a sensible and laudable approach to software, but not as the all-encompasing-single-organizing-principle that GNU seems to. It's a

I believe in free software as a sensible and laudable approach to software, but not as the all-encompasing-single-organizing-principle that GNU seems to. It's a model of development that is of varying importance for different software deployments. In general, I think the way I would say it is that I agree that, all things being equal, it would be better if all software were FOSS. The problem is not all things are equal and the GNU vision of FOSS is not helpful with that reality. Most often, when I find myself discussing FOSS, it's in a context where the FOSS advocate wants to push their overall goal for all software over the specifics of the situation. There are a minority of software projects where I think it's very important, but I think the bulk of software projects can be closed source if that works best for the creators and I'm skeptical the harm outweighs the good. So I believe in it but not the way GNU talks about it? And I think their approach probably does more harm than good.