Time to fork the FSF
I'm aware of Stallman's advocacy on free software issues, but (completely honest question), what else does the Free Software Foundation <i>do</i> ?<p>Software is at a point where its basically impossible to make anything useful <i>without</i> opensource software. Proprietary code is a minority in my stack both as a developer and as a user. Proprietary software is often good before opensource software is good, but consistently opensource implementations eventually outpace their proprietary counterparts. We saw this trend first with UNIX -> Linux. Today, just reading this webpage I'm using Chrome (Chromium + WebKit) which communicates via POSIX to the BSD network stack in my kernel (Darwin). The browser has been compiled with either GCC or LLVM. Hackernews is probably hosted on nginx / apache behind varnish or something, running on linux.<p>In short, I feel like the opensource movement has already won. Aside from RMS's crusade against software patents, how is the FSF still relevant?