Yeah. I'd say open source won in the basic infrastructure of the tech world, but actual political free software is just barely holding on. I want users to be free not some base shared code you can't actually modify running somewhere in the stack of a closed source SASS.
we ought to want that the users themselves should desire this freedom for themselves
right now we want it because we want the side-effect the the tinkerability, the data transfer, the cost-optimizaton (host it where it's cheap, or modify it if it's not cheap enough)
but users want their problem solved, they are extremely happy about an imperfect solution (deeply flawed delegation of the problem and responsibilities), they are willing to pay a lot for it, and their time-value discounting coefficients are atrocious. they want it now, and don't really care about tomorrow. (or next month when the free trial expires, when their credit card gets charged, when the price increases when their blessed business bamboozler becomes bankrupt - or worse a ruthless monopolist)
FOSS is an education problem, quite isomorphic to the problem of democracy (and climate change and other slow burn issues)
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and of course it's a political problem too
but where's the coalition of friends of FOSS who pledge to spend/buy/support development of the missing components? where's my FOSS printer? where's my movement that encourages me to buy a shittier phone knowing it will help spin up the flywheel of FOSS?
... and where are the faithful pragmatists that don't get sidetracked by their own toenails?
