In the broad strokes, the inaccuracy is to suggest that nobody besides the FSF and RMS were converging to many of the same conclusions at the same time. The FS

In the broad strokes, the inaccuracy is to suggest that nobody besides the FSF and RMS were converging to many of the same conclusions at the same time. The FSF did a good job of tying their ideas to a ratchet (GPL and copyright assignment) that would continue to pull in influence. That influence and recognition did not bring any benefit to open source (one of their childish "can't words"). Instead, it merely brought donations into the FSF and starved oxygen from a generation of others.