My primarly fear with people calling for rexamination of the values of the Free Software movement is that it will be gutted. It's a truly frightening prospect. The thing that makes Free Software different from "open source" is that it *is* radical, and there is no pretending that Free Software is not a political issue to a certain extend. "Open Source" folks seem to sacrifice a lot for the sake of getting along with evil companies, and I really don't want that to infect libre software.
@polarisfm Open Source is a development methodology, Free Software is a philosophy. This has always been so and will remain so.
@jeremiah I understand what you're saying but I'm not sure I agree. While Open Source software and Free Software usually overlap in terms of the actual software, I feel that people who promote Open Source instead of Free Software have a very different ideology. Open Source is often promoted by companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. Even though most OSS is Free, companies who promoted Open Source often erase the ethical issues surrounding software.
@polarisfm Yes, you're right. That is why open source is limited to software development - people use it to throw code over the wall. Free Software has a set of ethical components, as well as moral components because it is a philosophy.
