Please don't insult my and other reader's intelligence by playing definition games. There is no way an even only semi-informed reader could misunderstand that b

Please don't insult my and other reader's intelligence by playing definition games. There is no way an even only semi-informed reader could misunderstand that by 'commercial software', I and others replying to me meant 'software written by companies or individuals with the purpose to sell this software to others, under the conditions that these others cannot distribute or modify the software, and whose source of income rely on this non-redistribution so that they can charge others too; in this way spreading the cost of development over all users rather than making the first users of a specific feature pay the full amount for it". In all common usage, "paid software" is "software that the user paid for in order to get the right to use it", and not "someone was paid to write it". Firefox is not "paid software" or "commercial software" because some dude at Mozilla.org got paid for writing parts of it. I'm not "confusing" anything here, I'm perfectly aware of software business models, how they relate to open source, the FSF's stance on them, etc. If I had to qualify all words I use each and every time, rather than assume that readers can make a reasonable contextual interpretation of words, a 2-paragraph post would have to start with 10 paragraphs of definitions, assumptions, assumed pre-conditions etc. Your post is a schoolbook example of the hard core FSF disciple's propaganda strategy: focusing on semantic minutiae, making things that are 100% clear in any reasonable reader's mind opaque and ambiguous, using emotionally-laden words like 'open', 'free', 'restricting' so as to associate Free software with the words with generally positive connotations and those with negative with other software, to get gullible people to subscribe to their idiosyncratic world view. I'm not even sure why I got suckered into replying at all, I guess I'm just gullible too, maybe just in another way.