The FSF is an organization focused on freedom, not pragmatism. They leave the pragmatism to other people who are doing quite a good job at it. We need at least

The FSF is an organization focused on freedom, not pragmatism. They leave the pragmatism to other people who are doing quite a good job at it. We need at least one organization to be hardliners. They do make the exception for running non-free software in order to make a free version of it, which in some ways is what Ubuntu is aiming at. But they shouldn't compromise their position. One way to put it into perspective might be to shift it into an freedom issue that has already been decided in popular opinion, like slavery. Imagine this kind of opinion after the first census in 1790 while the USA was building its economy with slavery, under the agenda of promoting freedom: I'll never understand the stance that the abolitionists take in throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Sure, America might have some slavery. You know why? Because America is trying to offer freedom and opportunity to the world, do something other free nations have not been able to do. There is a HUGE benefit to freedom and democracy if America succeeds. But the abolitionists don't see it that way. It seems the abolitionists would rather see America fail rather than succeed with some slavery. Mind boggling. If America succeeds and is 82% free and 18% enslaved, is that not better than other nations where 18% are free and 82% enslaved? If/when America succeeds, the next generation can work at that last 18%. A reasonable, pragmatic and realistic approach is better than DOA.