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>>gnufx+(OP)
He laments that users "don't know about the freedoms we promote which are increasingly in their interest", but wasn't this the point of Open Source as compared to Free Software, to refocus the messaging from the user's freedoms to the economic benefit for companies?

The Free Software Definition mentions "user" 22 times and "freedom" 79 times, whereas the Open Source Definition has zero occurrences of these terms. It doesn't seem surprising that the user freedom message isn't getting through if you completely scrub it from the messaging.

>>ptx+a5
> point of Open Source as compared to Free Software

While what we know now is that Free came first and indeed Open Source was a different "offering" with a different focus, a response to it...

... I must admit I have heard and actually started to love Open Source several years before even hearing of Free Software

>>playin+F8
…due to those corporate interests.

I am a big fan of capitalism but it does have a tendency to drive out human discourse, as in this case, when companies think there is money to be made.