Why is this such a big deal, sometimes I like to contemplate the monkey dance that is coding and I come to the same conclusions, try coding a webpage in Haskell, yes its possible but programming is very compartmentalized you still need different languages for different objectives.
This battle will be long and tedious gentlemen with setbacks for both sides... but I can see it slowing degrading for Hollywood and you can bet new legislations will make sure they will remain with considerable power for decades after their market lost all appeal and logic sense of existence in a digital world.
This guy is a joke, I don't care if he was next to linus codding the kernel, Linux is not only about usability, and I'm not quoting rms here, you have problems of course, but you have a price to live free of DRM, spyware and lock-in, KDE trinity is a example that no matter what the main devs of a project does, it can be undone by motivated community.