Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

On 23.02.2020 0:49, Alexandre François Garreau wrote:
>> But what will rather happen is that the new generation will just rewrite
>> another program, possibly without caring about making it free software.
> So what? it still can be run.  If people value freedom, they should prefer
> the free one, to which they could contribute and get live again, if they
> need to.  But prefering the non-free one is a problem of moral philosophy,
> of personal misjugment to prefer not to be free…

One of the primary goals of the FSF is the promotion of Free Software 
and the awareness of it, including and especially among the new 
generations or users and developers.

> There is already non-free software.  So the solution is not anything
> technical, it is not something positive.  We don’t have to “do something
> more” to “bring people to write more free softwares”.  We have to make
> non-free software*disappear*.  Stop being written.  Stop to be used.
> Until the point where, with time, all proprietary software gets lost,
> rewritten, useless, unrunnable, or reverse-engineered.

That's simply a pipe dream. Let's not present any pipe dreams as the end 
goal of our movement, or else we won't be able to set our priorities 
straight.