Free Software is just as strong as it always has been. It&#x27;s now swimming in a larger pond of &quot;Free enough&quot;.<p>If all software is open by default (pretty much the chinese &quot;gonkai&quot; concept), that is a wonderful start. it means proprietary software is losing, and means that working on&#x2F;with proprietary software is an evolutionary dead-end.<p>But I think, especially for software that secures our individual rights&#x2F;liberties, Free Software (in the GPL sense) will still need to exist with much the same toothy license as today.