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Very true. The spirit of FOSS has been not just defeated but pushed back by corporate interests. We are more controlled by corporate decision makers today than ever before. FOSS embodies natural laws, namely, that information wants to be free, and that an object in my hands can be controlled and manipulated by me. Common law grants the framework of ownership atop which such that I shall not exercise without due permission such natural rights over objects that I have no ownership of, granting me the right to ownership in return. This framework has been unnaturally and unethically applied to non-personal information. In an ideal world, FOSS would not be needed at all.