FOSStards are everywhere online. They give us tech advice and some even use this board. I find some of the claims they make to be extremely dubious. Many of these people are Stallman followers, but they are closer to Eric B. Raymond's neoliberalism. But Stallmanism and neoliberalism cannot exist together. Its not compatible with the neolib free market. Many of these people claim that open source is better because anyone can see the code and spot bugs, errors, or secret features meant to spy on you. But does anyone actually audit the code? Programs are so huge now its very likely nobody is actually combing through thousands of lines of code. FOSS projects are also shittier than non-FOSS versions generally. FOSStards talk a big game about freedum etc. but they are actually elitists who look down on people. They treat ordinary humans who are not tech literate as scum and retarded idiots. If homebrew computer dorks in the 70s and 80s built computers because they believed it would help ordinary people, today FOSS fools think programs should serve other FOSS fools and the rest of the world be damned. So it develops into an extreme cultic fetishism of distro brands and culture wars, where these people argue about systemd as if their opting out of it makes a difference. Its a consumer mentality. These people are failed yuppies.

Now I don't mean to trash people but clearly something has gone very wrong or at least was flawed from the beginning?