> free software has mostly won.
The impression I get is that it's mostly the opposite: people have mostly given up on the notion of having all (or majority of) software being Free, and see that more and more as a pipe dream. Hence they don't want to "waste" their enthusiasm on something that feels like a (literal) utopia now.
There's a lot of reasons combined to get people there:
* seeing corporate behemoths everywhere that want to keep critical software proprietary
* many more people wanting to monetise their own software, and seeing that GPL-ing software offers only a few (and
not-universally-applicable) monetisation strategies
* seeing that the "all bugs are shallow" and "everybody pitching in will make Free software the best there is" turn out not really true in practice
* seeing that in practical terms, having access to read and modify source code means nothing in 99% of cases because of software overload and others' code being so hard to get into that it's often practically impenetrable.
Not to say that I agree with all or any of these completely, but it's easy to see such a multi-pronged attack pushing back hard against the FSF's message. Further reducing FSF's ability to spread the message is the widespread character assassination of RMS as an "insane, overly idealistic, and rude slob" that has been going on for at least a decade.
As someone that read the Halloween documents non-stop overnight, it makes me a bit sad too.