Like most of these articles, it looks at open source, or rather, free software, through a purely economic lens. But free software is not primarily about economi

Like most of these articles, it looks at open source, or rather, free software, through a purely economic lens. But free software is not primarily about economics, but about empowerment and sovereignty. I like having a text editor/browser/OS/chat client & protocol/compiler/video player/etc. that aren't closed binary blobs full of ads, telemetry, DRM, and subscription services (or printers betraying their owners with invisible tracking dots). The concern is not theoretical, as protesters in Hong Kong discovered when "their" phones refused to run software they used to organize: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-apple-idUSKBN1WP09U/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-apple-i... The FSF is clear on the motivations: A proprietary program puts its developer or owner in a position of power over its users. This power is in itself an injustice. - https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html The links on that page give many other examples of why free software is necessary.