(fyi I'm referring to this famous talk he gave http://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0 )
(fyi I'm referring to this famous talk he gave http://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0 )
But in the meantime, I'd say: pick your battles.
Many developers, including me, moved from Linux to OS X so they could get on with their lives.
And we pay for things much lower on the abstraction hierarchy: CPUs and GPUs and their proprietary IP, physical hardware, various industry-group protocols and standards, OSes in some cases, hosting.
And we know from experience that the whole hierarchy tends to move down as we build on it -- maybe the time has come for that to happen to languages, too.
If, in time, the things that WL is doing inspire higher-level, free languages to raise the abstraction (and semantic) bar, I think we'll all benefit. For now, we can only do what we do because we're a private company.