A very large part of the services offered on the web are free (as in beer) to users, but many of them come at the cost of freedom. Services like Twitter, Google, and facebook are being used to track users interactions on the web and to monetize as many of those interactions as possible. As a result, these free services have been locked down behind proprietary code despite the facts that most of the web is built on open source software. Our primary hope is that the major tech companies on the web are forced to compete for greater levels of openness as they hire more developers who specialize in building with open source tools.
