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I don't think Stallman is an effective spokesperson or campaigner for his own cause, though. Corporate-friendly open source has got enormously popular, to the point where the biggest open source collaboration platform, Github, is owned by Microsoft. Stallman is not troubling them. It's his own side he's driving to irrelevance.

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>Github, is owned by Microsoft

There was a time getting bought up by a large company seems like a great success and exit strategy. Now days the only things that I want spend my time making are things that are useful for people around me, not things that are useful for industrial military and surveillance state.

isn't android corporate friendly open source?

Definitely, yes. That's a prime example of how corporate friendly open source has been massively successful. By contrast, the first entry on the FSF's high priority projects page is a free phone operating system. They point to Replicant, an Android fork that... does not look particularly active.

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