The only time it's a problem is when an artist doesn't release their music on a certain platform and it's now work to try and go download a second app, make an account, possibly pay a subscription, and THEN listen to the new album. These are the kind of things users actually care about, not whether the app/backend is FOSS or not.
HN is a power user community so it's easy to improperly extrapolate our experiences and what we tolerate to what "normal users" will tolerate.
> who cares that they don't OWN the music anymore?
That's the thing, he is trying to raise awareness on this stuff. I do too.
If people cared, he'd be mostly done with his raising awareness work.
Open source is pretty much a developer issue. Free software, though, is a user issue.
(Of course we often use the terms interchangeably)
This is a good point, and shows why we need people like Stallman to press us on important but unglamorous issues.
His message is pretty much user-centered.
(and programmers deserve good message delivery too)