if the FSF and GNU movements were still relevant they'd be at the forefront of discussion in tech right now...

But they're not relevant, because they're not grounded in helping improve the rights of real people working on real projects anymore. Their obsession with abstract rights and principles has blinded them from the obvious reality that everyone in tech is facing right now (that being LLMs, their laundering of free software, and the associated social decay).

Instead of people feeling represented and the FSF/GNU projects spearheading industry and social change, they cower in their own spaces looking out at the wider tech world and waiting to see what happens, while developers increasingly feel alienated from their work. It's pitiful when you know what the movement used to be tbh.