Danny Spitzberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
> As we look forward from this RMS fracas, I wonder how other folks here feel > about this article. Well, I am not much aware of that fracas, and probably missed the connection. From a sideways glance, it looked like yet another malevolent hype started by professional SJWs, completely unrelated to software freedom. If I am wrong, please enlighten me. > 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.” I am not that familiar with RMS’s views to say whether a claim that “if you could change how enough hackers wrote and used software, you could change the world” may be really attributed to him either. But if you could change _how_ hackers write software, you could change the world. Free software + bazaar development is exactly about that, not about quantities. And I do not observe any failure on that front. Unfulfilled expectations for immediate and huge success (did anybody really share them?) != failure.
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