> Just the opposite. The free software movement has led to apps and programs where the users are the product, not the customer, and companies bend over backward

> Just the opposite. The free software movement has led to apps and programs where the users are the product, not the customer, and companies bend over backwards for advertisers. That's a business model common for SAAS applications, I don't really think it's related to free software. Gcc on linux doesn't send usage statistics to someone, I hope.