While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
In short, software is eating the world.