dick <dick.r.chi...@gmail.com> writes: > Now that the war's been won
Has it? Last time I checked, the vast majority of personal computing devices are still running a fully proprietary operating system, together with mostly proprietary applications. > and open source [1] is now the default configuration You grossly misunderstand what this "war" you speak of was about all along. The goal is not merely becoming the "default configuration", whatever you mean by that, they goal is ending the existence of proprietary software. There is still a long way to go. This is the reason why the following claim of yours: > the FSF has become less a serious advocacy group, and more a > historical society. Is not only baseless and void of insight, but reeks of a decades-old misunderstanding which I’m amazed still exists today. > [1] No one cares about the theoretical distinction between open > source and libre. The expression "No one" in the English language means exactly what it says on the tin. Such a quantifier means exactly *zero* people (or more formally, an empty set of people). To disprove this universal claim, it is enough for one (1) counterexample to exist, and I am such one counterexample (and I’m probably far from being the only one). You’re obviously entitled to your personal opinion, but please don’t make the childish mistake of generalizing it to a universal truth.