Well, it's been nearly three decades, but maybe Open Source is finally ready to lean a little bit farther towards the whole freedom/ethics thing.
If so, that would certainly be progress for Open Source.
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The GNU folks talked about software withextreme intensity, as if the fate of the entire world rested on thesuccess of their software replacing its commercial competition.
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Certainly the future of privacy. Today, people are (presently) tracked everywhere they go like cattle with tags on their ears. From the founding of the FSF in 1984, this is a dystopic reality. It's not really hyperbole to say that modern technology does affect the fate of the world-- and the GSM stack isn't the least bit "open" or "free." It's a completely proprietary system that things like iOS and Android run on top of, or even next to.
Facebook is a similar problem for the world, even new-improved Torvalds says it's "a disease." (He also said hating Microsoft is one, but I guess hating Facebook, Nvidia and Twitter is alright. I certainly think it is.)
