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 maxwell demon on Wednesday December 27 2017, @08:44AM
The problem is that there are only two possibilities to make something happen: Either you force everyone to comply with it through absolute control, or you try to convince people of it.
The first option, even if one actually happens to be able to pull it off, should be off the table for anyone ethical. The second option, on the other hand, is exactly what you are complaining about.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.