A lot of that blog post was ("ghost", kind of?) written by me. Yes. It should have mentioned what the program was, I guess. We are very much often in our own little bubble, so I guess it never occurred to the original author, me, the one who edited after me, or the handful or people who reviewed it. :x Oh well. I'll try and and keep it in mind for the next announcement!

(Also, ❤️ strycore for the comments! We're definitely very excited about the Qt5/Py3 update. Lots of other things planned too. :))

Re: If it’s not broke / Ubuntu 16.04.2

This is why I don't like Ubuntu (or Windows or Mac OS X …). If you want to mess with manual udev rules etc., don't use a system/distro that is not meant for that. Ubuntu is made to "work out of the box". If you mess around with how it's set up, don't expect it to continue working. 🙄

Also, the zen kernel is specifically made/tuned for increased interactivity and performance, so it should not be a surprise that switching to using that kernel improves interactivity and performance over the stockbuntu kernel.

Re: GPL decline

I think it's relevant to note that the GPL was made in a time where "all" software was proprietary and users weren't able to look into what went on "behind the scenes" at all. Part of the «newer generation»'s lesser «focus on freedom» is likely that they grew in a (software) world where "open source" was not a Bad Word™ and where they likely "grew up" using a number of various FLOSS projects to some degree. The danger of non-copyleft licenses is that the software can be taken over and be made non-free. (As you also mention with some projects using *BSD's as their basis over Linux—instead of actually opening up their software stack so we know what's going on. I'm not saying that they should, just, let's not put GPL in the grave just yet. :))