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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
It's not just scrubbed from the messaging: the actual goals are rather different. Stallman and the FSF were somewhere between indifferent to openly hostile to the goals of businesses while the "open source" wing was very much interested in making money and collaborating with others who wanted to make money.

>>emoden+IT1
> Stallman and the FSF were somewhere between indifferent to openly hostile to the goals of businesses

How do you figure? They very explicitly permit commercial use and even selling of Free Software.