You zing, but there's a grain of truth there, isn't it? "Free" software began when RMS wanted to fix his printer and got locked out by Xerox. "Open" software

You zing, but there's a grain of truth there, isn't it? "Free" software began when RMS wanted to fix his printer and got locked out by Xerox. "Open" software was an attempt to woo business to use free software but (arguably) threw the baby out with the bathwater by eliminating the "virality" of the GPL et. al., which was kind of the whole point (of "Free" ethos.) The whole Free vs. Open issue is effectively moot anyway since everybody uses proprietary closed systems. Even the FOSS folks use GitHub.