https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/free-software-movement-richard-stallman-l... [...] the social conditions under which free software is developed are marked by a contradiction between hackers’ commitments to the promotion of software freedom and their dependence on the market to reproduce themselves, socially and professionally. Free software depends socially, if not always computationally, on proprietary software development. [...] Free software is not an emancipatory politics, using free software is not a form of political participation, and opting out of the closed software paradigm does not challenge capital’s hegemony over computing. The struggle against the commodification of the information commons is a political, not technical one.