On the contrary, sometimes the terms used do matter, whether they are a name or not. That's why FSF informs people why they prefer to use the terms like "Free S

On the contrary, sometimes the terms used do matter, whether they are a name or not. That's why FSF informs people why they prefer to use the terms like "Free Software" instead of "Open Source". It might not matter now that everybody switched to the web but 20 years ago this talking about Open Source lead to, among others, the so-called "Shared Source Initiative" that was neither fish nor fowl. Also, the concept of winning or losing here is meaningless. For one thing, they already won, in the sense that FLOSS is omnipresent. It's a completely different world than in the 90s. On the other hand, whether the GNU project itself is more or less popular does not change its value: it's a result of selfless work of thousands of volunteers worldwide that made our lives easier* and made many things possible. *) Not just Linux folks but also, say, Solaris admins in the 90s - at some point you'd begin by installing GNU utils to make the system more usable.