Zuckerberg wants to convert Facebook into a virtual reality world, which we could call the "zuckerverse".

Most of the places and things would be designed by other designers, but access to all of them would be controlled and tracked by Facebook's non-free software. Many designers would get a little money from this, while Facebook would let the most successful few have a million or two out of Facebook's billions so as to inspire the rest with unlikely hopes.

I expect this system to be built on the internet. But unlike the internet and the pre-2000 World Wide Web, whose protocols anyone is allowed to implement, this one will be restricted. Free implementations will not be allowed.

The VR headsets of today are based on non-free software, and since the headsets can talk over the network, we must expect them to have surveillance and other malicious functionalities.

Will we ever be allowed to make a free VR headset?