Free software is a failure because it is hypocritical. It purports to "increase freedom", whereas in reality, it increases the amount of restrictions. The license is always about not being able to do this, forbidden to do that, incompatible with this, non-compliant with that ... Just look at the AGPL. It's all about restrictions, not about the mythical "freedom" that the FSF constantly spews from its propaganda department. At one extreme, we have the closed source software vendors. At the other extreme, we have the FSF. These two extremes are antagonistic to one another, but they are really the same at their core. They are all about being control freaks, and all about imposing restrictions.