Z:gnu-www-ja-free-world-notes--1f7e46-Much of this work is already b/en

Much of this work is already being done. What's missing is not so much the people or even the organization as a coherent sense of the economic imperatives. To date, free software has largely been driven by political sensibilities and the traditions of academic freedom, which have led it into a hodge podge of areas, many of which have very little impact on common needs and usages. (Some, such as the Web, have had major impact, and as such have attracted enormous commercial attention.) However, the driving force behind free software must be economics: why do we spend so much money propping up empires when all we really want are clean, simple programs that do our work? And why do software professions have to work for commercial companies when their skills and work are more immediately needed by users?