History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes, so the saying goes.

To anyone acquainted with the history of Christianity (or religion more
generally) and the history of libre software, the parallels are simply
fascinating.

From the Book of St. IGNUcius, 12:1-12:

Then began rms to speak to the people this parable; A certain person created a
program for perself, and sent its code to other programmers, and went into a
far country for a long time. When per returned, per sent an email to the
programmers, now selling the software as a service, that they should forward
any code that they had improved, so that other programmers might benefit from
it: but the programmers ignored the email, and refused to acknowledge the debt.

And again per sent another email: and they ignored this one also, and maligned
per on other mailing lists, calling per greedy and envious for prestige, and
still refused to acknowledge the debt. And again per sent a third: and this
one, too, they ignored.

Then said the creator of the program, What shall I do? I will send the code of
my latest extension to the program under a copyleft license; it may be they
will understand the obligation of using libre software and the reciprocal
sharing of code when they read the license and modify the code.

But when the programmers saw the new code, they reasoned among themselves,
saying, this is a vast improvement on the original: come, let us obfuscate this
code and delete the license, that we may continue to sell the software without
giving back.

So they added the code to their the program and deleted the license. What
therefore shall the original programmer do unto them?

Per shall come with lawyers and sue these programmers, and shall then give the
source code to others.

And when they heard it, they said, Google forbid.

And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The license
which the engineers rejected, the same has become the backbone?

Whosoever shall fall upon that license shall be broken; but on whomsoever it
shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

And Silicon Valley and their coders the same hour sought to lay hands on him;
and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable
against them.