I miss it too! It's been sad to watch the whole descent of the free software movement into just another avenue for corporate profit 8-(
The original free software concept: that _users_ of s/w can develop and maintain s/w for their use (and all other user's use), thus implementing what users want/need, instead of what will makes the most money; has largely been displaced by the "open" model of getting other people to do part of your s/w dev/debug to reduce costs and increase profits.
Like all powerful technologies, in the long run it's "success" is determined primarily by how much money it can make for the already outrageously wealthy...
The original free software concept: that _users_ of s/w can develop and maintain s/w for their use (and all other user's use), thus implementing what users want/need, instead of what will makes the most money; has largely been displaced by the "open" model of getting other people to do part of your s/w dev/debug to reduce costs and increase profits.
Like all powerful technologies, in the long run it's "success" is determined primarily by how much money it can make for the already outrageously wealthy...