The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org)

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 9, 2016 @06:48AM from the thanks-for-the-ongoing-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Free Software Foundation is conducting a survey to gather feedback on where they should be focusing their efforts over the next five years. Should they concentrate on IP issues, UX issues, or something else? Is their stance on Free Software versus Open Source a battle that's already lost, and should they compromise? What do users think an ideal world would look like in 2020? And how miserable could things get? Without the FSF (and GNU), today's computing landscape would sure look a lot different.

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Give up by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-09 07:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That's what they should do. It's over. Well before 2020 you will need a connection to even make the notepad work, and computing is increasingly becoming a service. No more general purpose computers in the home, only appliances, with most of the actual work being done on remote servers. In this environment "free software" will disappear. Embrace the future, centralization and control for everyone under a few supercorporations well connected to the government. It's a done deal already. Get over it.