"I don't know why other comments are being so snarky or dismissive and apologetic in response to this." Because if you didn't already know what the FSF thought

"I don't know why other comments are being so snarky or dismissive and apologetic in response to this." Because if you didn't already know what the FSF thought about <closed source software> you are the cancer killing HN by upcritically upvoting this (along with every NSA comment in every thread not remotely related to the NSA). "The FSF have made a very astute observation" No they haven't. They've made the same observation they always make -- closed is bad, proprietary is bad.