We’re in a brave, new post open source world

Free Software is just as strong as it always has been. It's now swimming in a larger pond of "Free enough".

If all software is open by default (pretty much the chinese "gonkai" concept), that is a wonderful start. it means proprietary software is losing, and means that working on/with proprietary software is an evolutionary dead-end.

But I think, especially for software that secures our individual rights/liberties, Free Software (in the GPL sense) will still need to exist with much the same toothy license as today.

Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990719 .

This is why using GPL is important.