Comment by sunshine-o

Which part?

While in many way software freedom won the server and workstation battle, we lost all the new battlefront which opened in the last two decades:

- Phones (the thing in the hand of almost every human now. And sorry LineageOS and GrapheneOS are quickly being marginalized now by things like Google Play Integrity)

- Javascript (yes it is a big problem [0])

- the Cloud

- IoT

The FSF was actually pretty good at identifying those issue early on but was overwhelmed and probably marginalized because they were right.

Notice that none of those new "Open Source" advocates really care about those ubiquitous issues.

We won some battles but lost the war. The fact France endorses some UN Open Source principles really doesn't matter.

You might think caring about software freedom is almost fringe but look at:

- The US freaking out about all those Chinese devices and cyber attacks,

- The EU now freaking out about US big tech and the cloud.

I believe the best way to safeguard sovereignty and safety is for everyone be able to control as much as possible what is running on our "computers" and as close to you as possible. The FSF [1] has been consistent regarding those issue and doing something about it. But also some other folks like OpenBSD [2].

Very unclear to me what the goals of the UN and the OSI type foundations really is.

- [0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

- [1] https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns-summaries

- [2] https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html