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&ldquo;Free&rdquo; and &ldquo;open&rdquo; are rivals for mindshare. &ldquo;Free software&rdquo; and &ldquo;open source&rdquo; are different ideas but, in most people's way of looking at software, they compete for the same conceptual slot. When people become habituated to saying and thinking &ldquo;open source,&rdquo; that is an obstacle to their grasping the free software movement's philosophy and thinking about it. If they have already come to associate us and our software with the word &ldquo;open,&rdquo; we may need to shock them intellectually before they recognize that we stand for something else. Any activity that promotes the word &ldquo;open&rdquo; tends to extend the curtain that hides the ideas of the free software movement.