Comment by gigatree

I hope it isn’t dismissive of Stallman’s contributions to OSS to say his idealism has the same glaring issues as communism. That it basically ignores incentive structures altogether and replaces them with the social pressure of “just do the right thing”. It’s kind of exhausting too when people who already make a great living and have basically just traded more money for social clout and moral authority lecture everyone else with “it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to build a business to support your family, what matters is this idealism, and if you disagree you’re a bad person”. I’m as happy as the next guy that open source won, but clearly it was only ever going to happen for business reasons and not social pressure and idealistic reasons (even if those were instrumental early on).