> Indeed, because free software development is largely driven by ideological purity rather than feature parity. This "ideological purity" didn't come out of no

> Indeed, because free software development is largely driven by ideological purity rather than feature parity. This "ideological purity" didn't come out of nothing, it came out of the very practical issue of who is in control. People forget that RMS came up with the whole thing because he wanted to fix a broken printer and was denied the source code that could help him fix the issue. He wasn't siting in some ivory tower coming up with abstract philosophical questions, he was in some lab and had an actual practical problem he wanted to fix.