I see it the other way around. The "movement" does not exist without RMS.
FSF itself is pretty woke nowadays so they have diluted and taken their mission in another direction.
As for the RMS attacks, he did the heresy of thinking out loud on a private mailing list which do-gooders promptly leaked and framed.
Your whole question is silly. He's not 'recuperated' since there's no authority to decide this. It's kinda hard when you replace institutions for woke mobs.
They have like 100 people in Prague, another 100 in Munich and then 1000 in Russia. Safe to say they are a Russian company with an EU "presence" for tax purposes.
It's amazing how much people will close an eye if they like the product!
It's not a different issue. You used academic papers as the standard we could use for open source and it's provably worse.
Even copyright... isn't Elsevier a major copyright holder for all academic papers and thus causing all sorts of problems. It's not like it's all kumbaya out there. The academic world is much worse than GPL and open source on multiple dimensions.
Have you heard of... patents? Why is an idea written on paper so valuable? Why can't people just use it (or, as it often happens, independently rediscover it) and just cite the patent if recognition is required?
As for scientific research, most of the software behind scientific paper is basically closed source. Which is another reason why there's a whole reproducibility problem with science papers: it's quite possible many papers are just bad interpretation of data due to bad software.
Also note how much software / research / data is proprietary. How can one quote that?
I wouldn't mind using only BSD in the future if I get to read the Apple iOS source code on GitHub.
Not really. Back when free software was strong, it would have been a good thing for society since Microsoft was selling software in boxes on actual store shelves.
Now 'the edge' is already mostly open source. All the lock-in and value has moved into either infrastructure or in software you don't even get to touch since it runs in the Cloud and you just provide IO to it.
FSF itself is pretty woke nowadays so they have diluted and taken their mission in another direction.
As for the RMS attacks, he did the heresy of thinking out loud on a private mailing list which do-gooders promptly leaked and framed.
Your whole question is silly. He's not 'recuperated' since there's no authority to decide this. It's kinda hard when you replace institutions for woke mobs.