Hi all

this article <https://logicmag.io/failure/freedom-isnt-free/> on the
"failure" of free software ran last month (long before the recent scandal)
and offers what could be an important wake up call — especially in light of
the wild hand-wringing about RMS.

The following quote feels prescient:

“Free software pioneers like Stallman tended to approach the issue from an
individualized perspective, drawn from the 1970s-1980s hacker culture that
many of them came from: if you could change how enough hackers wrote and
used software, you could change the world. This highly personalized model
of social change proposed an individual solution to a structural problem,
which necessarily neglected the wider social context.”

As we look forward from this RMS fracas, I wonder how other folks here feel
about this article.