"Influential" doesn't mean "in control." See: the media deciding the definition of "hacker" over years of protests from people in the tech community. Stallman,

"Influential" doesn't mean "in control." See: the media deciding the definition of "hacker" over years of protests from people in the tech community. Stallman, his writing, and his org moved the needle on the way software was done; that doesn't imply they get to dictate how software is done. But nowadays, I question their capacity to move the needle.