#+title: Free software vs. open source

#+date: <2022-01-18>

Alexandre Oliva's post [[https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/against-software-tyranny.en.html][Against Software Tyranny]] is a good read on the
difference between free software and open source.  Free software is
the liberation of computing, whereas open source is to hope for the
corporations to be enlightened.  Much like copyleft vs. pushover and
dare I say progressives vs. liberals.

Corporations view "open source" software as commons, just like natural
resources, free for their taking.  This is the key cause of
unsustainable free software development recently under discussion.
This is also why I don't really like to refer to the free world as
commons.

A commons is too weak to protect our computing freedom, and only makes
sense if nonfree software is eliminated.