Z:gnu-www-ja-when free software isnt practically better--2f9ad9-For more than a decade now, th/en

For more than a decade now, the Free Software Foundation has argued against this &ldquo;open source&rdquo; characterization of the free software movement. Free software advocates have primarily argued against this framing because &ldquo;open source&rdquo; is an explicit effort to deemphasize our core message of freedom and obscure our movement's role in the success of the software we have built. We have argued that &ldquo;open source&rdquo; is bad, fundamentally, because it attempts to keep people from talking about software freedom. But there is another reason we should be wary of the open source framing. The fundamental open source argument, as quoted in the mission statement above, is often incorrect.