Even though Free Software Licensing might not be for everyone, we're all lucky to have people as stubborn and uncompromising as RMS to be the figureheads of the Free Software Movement.
Indeed, there is no need for the FSF to compromise, but rather keep shifting the conversation focus towards the user's freedom, show companies the way that they can achieve their goals without malicious restrictions towards their users.
My personal position, which I tried not to voice in the post, is that the FSF has compromised too much. In particular, I think their position on private changes, their unwillingness to cross the line exemplified by situations like libgcc, and their unwillingness to deploy legal developments strengthening copyleft in their licenses all cripple them, strategically.
The closest I've come to a post on the subject is here:
There is no user's freedom, just programmer's freedom. The whole concept was created when software users were almost all programmers. If suddenly it become legal to perform neurosurgery yourselves would you call that user's freedom?
I would certainly want to be able to inspect the code of a pacemaker and modify it if I decided it was necessary. Performing neurosurgery on my self is not possible regardless of legality. However, if I was having neurosurgery and I was educated enough to understand, then I would definitely want to see what the surgeon was planning to do.
I'm not a very good coder, but I can hire someone to make whatever changes I need in a piece of free software. That's something I've seriously considered in the past, although it's never been quite important enough to me.
I have no idea how to change the spark plug on my car, but the fact that it's possible means that I can I can either pay someone else to, ask a friend to or learn how to do it myself. User freedom is transferable.
Even though Free Software Licensing might not be for everyone, we're all lucky to have people as stubborn and uncompromising as RMS to be the figureheads of the Free Software Movement.
Indeed, there is no need for the FSF to compromise, but rather keep shifting the conversation focus towards the user's freedom, show companies the way that they can achieve their goals without malicious restrictions towards their users.