@Di4na Considering we haven't even remotely begun to liberate the hardware which is at the root of our systems, I don't think we have won.

Software was only ever the easy part, and even there the corposcum monopolies and their legislator cronies are doing their best to limit the effective Freedom of users (consider the criminalization of interoperability and adversarial interoperability). That they derive most of their tools from our labor intended to liberate in order to oppress is just a sick and ironic joke (and the best we could do in retaliation is just sabotage with results of indiscriminate harm, a profoundly undesirable notion).

But even if we managed to pull things back into the control of the users and ensure their software systems actually *serve the user*?

At the moment, the majority of us do our computing on hardware where any Freedom that software grants us could be pulled under our feet a moment's notice, should some hitherto unknown backdoor or vulnerability (what's the difference?) be activated.

Battles have been won, the campaign moved forward, but we're *far* from being able to just shout victory.