I don’t think this is correct at all, personally. You’re saying that the article espouses the idea that we get a “significant number” of individual people to care about this seemingly fringe issue, but that’s the liberal response that this article actual argues against. The article says we need to achieve a systemic solution, and essentially ground the Stallmanist free software movement into the socio-political sphere even more than it already is, because at the moment it doesn’t go far past the individual. This doesn’t mean convincing a ton of people that they should use free software, but instead working toward the goal of making free software the norm so that the freedoms it holds be equally accessible to all and the material interests that people have in free software be understood.

It is crucial to understand and accept the class dynamics of politics, and to realize that our efforts should not lie in explaining people their interests, but rather organizing to best achieve them. Imagine if all those who were outraged by, for example, Windows 10 spying on them, were given an integrated political platform to properly understand the root cause of these issues and the proper way to resist them!