The Free Software movement doesn't pursue the goal of "liberty for all humanity". If you think it does, you are gravely mistaken. Our goals are different, and are well described elsewhere.

when you wrote this, i went back and read the gnu manifesto and the sections on philosophy at the fsf website, something i haven't done for
quite some time. i was convinced i would find something to support the idea that the fsf's mission, while focused on software, is in support of the greater mission of human liberty. but you are right. i was gravely mistaken.

what i have read, instead, are a bunch of writings that use the language of freedom and liberty to enshrine privileges for programmers and no one else. there is no such thing as justice for only one group of people. it must be universal. there is nothing wrong with narrowly focusing on justice in one arena, but it must always exist in the context of the greater, universal struggle for justice. anything else is hypocrisy. anything else is hollow. it is morally bankrupt.

• brian cully