> Free Software is, largely, Open Source software that also respects user freedom. No. Open Source software also respects user freedom. OSI definition of Open

> Free Software is, largely, Open Source software that also respects user freedom. No. Open Source software also respects user freedom. OSI definition of Open Source license is pretty much compatible with FSF definition of Free Software license. Those terms are mostly interchangeable - but the whole point is that while technically they're similar, philosophically they point to completely different concepts. > Unless you are making the claim that the "respects user freedom" part of Free Software is so huge as to make up 90% (or some other large percentage) of the importance of "Free Software"... but I don't really agree with that claim. That's the exact claim of the article you're commenting under. And I happen to agree with that claim. User freedom is what's important, the rest are just consequences of respecting user freedom.