Except they aren’t doing it. What we have to show for decades of FSF activism is enough of a rejection of GPL that other licenses filled the gap, and that gap b

Except they aren’t doing it. What we have to show for decades of FSF activism is enough of a rejection of GPL that other licenses filled the gap, and that gap basically created cloud computing by letting the very companies RMS detests offshore their engineering to the detesters without any risk. So in one interpretation, the ideal software model but maybe not the ideal license envisioned by FSF is a major component of the transfer/takeback of computing as a concept from individual to corporation (and then bigger corporation) and the creation of pan-surveillance culture. Which is incredibly ironic given the ideals of the FLOSS community. That’s what we’re reaping, in my estimation. Vexing yourself with the legal provenance of the BIOS in your laptop ignores all that, and this state of computing been slowly growing in that technofetish blind spot for about thirty years. And now the community with said, massive blind spot is saying “see what you reaped by not listening to us?” Come on. We did. It’s a safe bet I’ve been thinking about this longer than you’ve been in the job market, and I’m not saying that to tout my experience, but it’s equally frustrating to level some criticism at the FLOSS world and get accused of shortsighted/myopia/blah blah which was exactly my bone to pick with OP. That’s the only argument path. FLOSS is perfect, and if you disagree, you just don’t see it. That’s not a society. That’s a belief. I’m not saying that’s the fairest take. (Please give me a better one that isn’t “people just don’t listen,” and I may be convinced.) Maybe if everything Posix were GPL we wouldn’t be offshoring our computing responsibilities to companies who built platforms with these tools, I don’t know. This has been the background noise of my entire adult life, though, and yeah, I’ve had enough reaping of the current state of affairs. I assure you wholeheartedly that I care. I just disagree with you. Stop confusing the two.