Comment by smitty1e

The tension between free software, ethics, and running a business continues to fascinate.

If there were a way for an FSF-adjacent company to have a user-owned business model that could both:

a) maintain fidelity with FSF goals and ethics

b) also do the hard-nosed business decisions that are needful.

As a decades-long FSF member, I'd cheerfully support subscribing to a set of email/search services, assuming technical heft.

The two mindsets seem hard to harmonize.