Exactly - every time I hear someone like ESR troll the FSF about why they should support "open source" instead and embrace proprietary software, I have to wonde

Exactly - every time I hear someone like ESR troll the FSF about why they should support "open source" instead and embrace proprietary software, I have to wonder what they're thinking. The sole purpose of the FSF is to promote free software. If the FSF had come out in support of this, I would have said that they're shirking on their responsibility. The FSF has been known to make compromises for the sake of pragmatism in the past, if and only if such compromises actually promote free software[1]. DRM in the browser is a very different case, though. It reminds me of the Republican party leader[0] in 2009 who said, on the topic of healthcare, 'It's over. Democrats lost. The people spoke, and they don't want healthcare. They want lower taxes. Democrats need to move on.'[2] [0] It may have been Eric Cantor, but I can't remember [1] e.g., using the LGPL instead of the GPL for glibc: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html [2] It's actually even worse than that, because political parties change their platforms over time, but since healthcare has been the crux of the Democratic party platform for half a century, it's the closest thing to a fixed principle as politics has.