Everything you say makes complete sense if I look at it through the lens of someone that unflinchingly adheres to the FLOSS ethos, on that we're never going to

Everything you say makes complete sense if I look at it through the lens of someone that unflinchingly adheres to the FLOSS ethos, on that we're never going to agree. My view is that the end user is the most important part of the whole stack. To a certain extent, Apple gets this - yes, the salesbro's in corporations do drive direction to some extent, but they have yet to do anything that is really end-user hostile. Microsoft, also to a less extent do this too. FLOSS claims to benefit end users, but I always question this; to me it seems to benefit developers and those that want to 'stick it to the man' more than anything else. Now I will openly admit to oversimplifying and generalising here, and I'm sure my stance could be easily disproven (see another comment in this thread), but to me the is issue in the article seems to be fundamentally that OSS desktop projects cater to a minority. Servers are something else entirely - I'm an older UNIX beard, so I stick with the BSDs - not a fan of the GNU tool chain. Here, I'm very definitely in the minority.