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@thatgeoguy @w96k @csepp @technomancy @lunabee I hear this a lot, but I think the line that free software "has won" is incorrect. A good number of free software developers struggle to work on free software, and all but the most commercial free software projects are under funded. Working on free software professionally remains infeasible for the vast majority of software workers, who never had the free time required to get involved. Closed surveillance systems monitor everything we do. Workers in Africa are subjected to indentured servitude under comprador dictators so that we can extract their minerals to manufacture chips. If software is labor, then free software should be about advancing the freedoms of the workers of the world. So from that perspective, its failed, and remains under constant attack, as demonstrated by the past year in layoffs.