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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Re:Let 'em eat Pi by tepples · 2016-01-09 08:04 · Score: 3, Informative

Android is still a closed walled system.
How so? Android is free software. Or by Android did you mean Google Play?

I can see a day when ISPs start requiring "approved hardware" in order to connect to their networks for example.
Back in 2005 or so, users such as Alsee were predicting that home Internet access would be locked down using Trusted Network Connect by 2015. It's 2016 now.