<story><title>Free Software Foundation Priority Projects</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynegation</author><text>This is the right thing to do and I hope it is not too little too late. Free&amp;#x2F;libre OSS won the battle for the server, lost the battle for the desktop, but desktop is not (that) relevant anymore. FLOSS phone ecosystem will be hard to next to impossible, in my opinion, but worth going into. Self-hosted server side software has a very good chance of succeeding. For a long time I essentially wanted something like Synology and QNAP but completely open, with a single package installation interface and ecosystem of phone apps working with my self hosted software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmerl</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Free&amp;#x2F;libre OSS won the battle for the server, lost the battle for the desktop, but desktop is not (that) relevant anymore. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Desktop won&amp;#x27;t stop being relevant in the foreseeable future - there is nothing to replace it with for a whole variety of tasks. And usage of Linux on the desktop is gradually growing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Free Software Foundation Priority Projects</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynegation</author><text>This is the right thing to do and I hope it is not too little too late. Free&amp;#x2F;libre OSS won the battle for the server, lost the battle for the desktop, but desktop is not (that) relevant anymore. FLOSS phone ecosystem will be hard to next to impossible, in my opinion, but worth going into. Self-hosted server side software has a very good chance of succeeding. For a long time I essentially wanted something like Synology and QNAP but completely open, with a single package installation interface and ecosystem of phone apps working with my self hosted software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>If GNU&amp;#x27;s idea of free software and open source are lumped together, I&amp;#x27;m not convinced that the battle for the desktop and mobile are over due to the direction Microsoft is currently heading and the way in which Apple&amp;#x27;s closed source ambitions are increasingly subject to criticism on the basis of being closed source. Of course the caveat is I&amp;#x27;m looking at it more as the 100 Years&amp;#x27; War [1] than the 30 Years&amp;#x27; War [2].&lt;p&gt;The reason I take the long term view is that it seems to me that open source development provides advantages that play out over the long term. At the very least, Google and Red Hat&amp;#x27;s hybrid models look more and more like the main stream default.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hundred_Years%27_War&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hundred_Years%27_War&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thirty_Years%27_War&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thirty_Years%27_War&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>