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 I fear that for the average user, the difference between the two is negligible at best, especially because the two definitions on the surface seem to overlap. Not my personal viewpoint as I agree with you, just an observation.
@Moostafa332 That's a huge problem with the Free Software movement in general. People don't understand the difference, espeically when people use terms like FOSS, which while a nice blanket term, does equate the two when they're rather different ideologically. I really feel like rebranding is in order for the Free Software movement. Software Freedom movement, maybe?
@polarisfm On a side note, what are your thoughts now that Stallman has resigned? Do you feel that what he started is robust enough to survive without him at the helm?
@polarisfm That name would help somewhat, though without emphasis or context, I think we'd end up in the same point. A greater push needs to made in my opinion, that drives home the separation between the two.