Comment by billy99k

It didn't succeed because he was always against making money from software. He also has pushed for governments to be forced to use FOSS.

I remember him doing some interviews in the 90s, and he would put his coat over the camera, if it wasn't using FOSS. This sort of zealot mindset will always be on the fringes of society and eventually abandoned for something more liberal (which is what we've seen in the last decade or so).