@d72d5211 I'm glad you made that work for you, but I'm also sure it was a moral imperative to do so. That needn't be the case for everyone, and I think you'll find most people face far more blockers than enablers in excising non-free software. For every Dave, there are 1000 devs who must contend with things like Windows every day, and that isn't the most important fight for them. 

 @663e5b60 you're certainly not wrong there... however, if devs realised their collective power and stopped working for those companies requiring them to use Windows... companies would stop using Windows. Yeah, it's a moral imperative... but if we don't believe that a critical mass of people can 'do the right thing'... what point is there in caring about anything? 😉 

 Seems to me that demonstrating it's possible to do this can be quite empowering. There're a LOT of unfulfilled devs out there.