Joseph Graham has written a very short blog post about software freedom and the direction we might take to achieve it.
The free software movement, founded in the 80s by Richard Stallman and supported by the Free Software Foundations 1, 2, 3, 4, preaches that we need software that gives us access to the code and the copyright permissions to study, modify and redistribute. While I feel this is entirely true, I think it's not the best way to explain Free Software to people.
I think the problem we have is better explained more like this:
"Computer technology is complicated and new. Education about computers is extremely poor among all age groups. Technology companies have taken advantage of this lack of education to brainwash people into accepting absurd abuses of their rights."
Source : The Free Software movement is Barking up the wrong tree
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday December 27 2017, @05:26PM
I forgot to add that while Metro is indeed awful, Microsoft has a LOT of room to make mistakes and to force bad design choices on users because of their dominant position. People will generally use whatever crap that MS shovels at them. FOSS doesn't have that luxury. And instead of exploiting this golden opportunity with Metro and then the addition horrors of Windows 10 (forced updates, spyware, etc.) to increase the popularity of FOSS, instead they shoot themselves in the foot with Gnome3.
It's just like Dark Helmet's quote: "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."