Free Software and Open Source are both good for different reasons. Free Software is guided by ethical principles and Open Source is a framework for building software publicly with open collaboration. For some reason these two camps are at war - the incrementalist vs the radicals - but I think they're both valuable.
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@alex free software movement is not radical, it is simply against proprietary software. This notion of open source somehow being same but more sensible/incremental, while it is actually completely neutral and remains the last line of defense for today's proprietary software monopolies, is the problem. People are saying that open source is freer than free software, calling the latter a radical communist or fascist movement, developers are paranoid about evil gnus forking their(and their only, cause muh intellectual property) projects and infecting it with GPL disease(which is now worse than proprietary somehow), while monopolies continue to dominate markets with proprietary forks.

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