>From there since Free Software has only lost ground That's not true, it gained ground for a long time after that. "Free" as in freedom software, by Stallman'

>From there since Free Software has only lost ground That's not true, it gained ground for a long time after that. "Free" as in freedom software, by Stallman's definition, probably peaked in the early 2000s. And I would say that the losses mostly started happening when the FSF stopped producing software that people wanted to use. They effectively ignored the entire internet revolution.