It really depended on where your priorities lay and how much they intersected with the OSS developers at the time. For example , we might not care about using

It really depended on where your priorities lay and how much they intersected with the OSS developers at the time. For example , we might not care about using a more "minimal" chat client but for my sister that would have been a deal breaker "I can't have my animated pink cat avatar?!?! This thing is USELESS" This problem is mostly alleviated now as the dancing cat programs have moved to the web and mobile. The problem with Stallman's approach was that it basically said "you should value freedom more than dancing cats". Try telling that to a teenage girl.