> The irony is, of course, that as open source software has won, freedom has actually been damaged. Exactly. This shows one of the core differences between th

> The irony is, of course, that as open source software has won, freedom has actually been damaged. Exactly. This shows one of the core differences between the Free Software movement and Open Source. Little is won when there are more users of Free Software (copyleft or not). The goal is not only to displace proprietary software but freedom-restricting practices involving software. This is one of the reasons why the GPL was updated to version 3.