Aaron Wolf at 2016-02-22T17:46:39Z
I completely agree with @mlinksva but feel we should be absolutely clear how super important it is that @bkuhn and others continue working to turn more "Open Source" developers into software freedom activists.
I once spent 45 minutes talking to a developer at New Relic before she finally understood the actual issue of why software freedom isn't about developer concerns and is different from just the concepts of "Open Source" she already knew. She wasn't someone who had a stance in these politics, she literally was writing some FLO software and using mostly FLO software while working for a proprietary software company and yet had to patiently talk with me for a long while before it finally clicked that the issues of software freedom even *exist*. That is the state of things today. That is *part* of why the paradox happens. The cause of this ignorance is complex, and is, of course, connected to the control of the messaging from proprietary interests.
I once spent 45 minutes talking to a developer at New Relic before she finally understood the actual issue of why software freedom isn't about developer concerns and is different from just the concepts of "Open Source" she already knew. She wasn't someone who had a stance in these politics, she literally was writing some FLO software and using mostly FLO software while working for a proprietary software company and yet had to patiently talk with me for a long while before it finally clicked that the issues of software freedom even *exist*. That is the state of things today. That is *part* of why the paradox happens. The cause of this ignorance is complex, and is, of course, connected to the control of the messaging from proprietary interests.