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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @08:51PM
Yes, don't you dare complain about how we live in a world filled with computers and yet so many of them are essentially just black boxes that may or may not be doing nefarious things under the hood. That is actually a very dangerous situation and you're extremely short-sighted if you think the problem starts and ends with people just needing to write some Free Software. That is something people should do, but the abuse of society by proprietary software companies cannot be overlooked.