Edit: And now that I’ve read it, I can’t say I understand exactly what the author’s point was. To say “free software” is “dead” and to say “free software has a specific goal and I don’t care about it” are two different things and seems needlessly dramatic. The rest of it is a long-winded description of the state of open-source licensed software and how corporations use it, often in an exploitative way. It may be a long acknowledgement that you are not going to solve the worlds problems with software alone, which is worth remembering.
If you find the writer’s “no capital letters” writing style obnoxious and difficult to read like I do, you can paste the text into this: https://www.textfixer.com/tools/capitalize-sentences.php
Edit: And now that I’ve read it, I can’t say I understand exactly what the author’s point was. To say “free software” is “dead” and to say “free software has a specific goal and I don’t care about it” are two different things and seems needlessly dramatic. The rest of it is a long-winded description of the state of open-source licensed software and how corporations use it, often in an exploitative way. It may be a long acknowledgement that you are not going to solve the worlds problems with software alone, which is worth remembering.