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And that's what the community does't get: the last 20% is the hard bitI think a lot of people in OSS do get that, but in many ways it's significantly harder to do that last 20% in an open source project than it is for a proprietary software company to do it.
But ultimately I don't care that much, honestly. If you don't get what you need out of open source, that's fine. You not using it isn't a problem for me or for my own open source work. As long as there are enough users to keep communities going and developers interested, that's all that matters.
> and the above is the last 20% and it has never even once in the history of OSS got anywhere even remotely near that.
That's provably false, and it's pretty annoying when people make uninformed absolutist statements like that.
> No one cares about the political purity and ideology behind it.
A lot of people do. No, not a majority, and maybe not even a largely sizeable minority, but it's very very far from "no one". If you don't, I guess that's fine. I hope your proprietary software continues to do what you need and want, and that your needs and interests continue to be aligned with what those software companies want to give you. That hasn't been true for me for a very long time now, but certainly people have different needs and different thresholds for it to matter. But if that changes, feel fortunate that all the work we've done will still be available for you to take advantage of.
> The job of the computer is to free us from slavery and everyone seems to have bloody well forgotten that.
Your use of the word "slavery" is a bit bizarre and overwrought, but it's funny you say something like this. Open source software is the only kind of software that's going to respect your freedom. Proprietary software never will. You're at the whims of its makers, and can never take control of your own computing destiny.
Like the sibling said, I guess that doesn't matter to you now. But maybe it will, someday, when the game changes yet again.