From the OSI's old history page [0]: > The conferees decided it was time to dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with "fre

From the OSI's old history page [0]: > The conferees decided it was time to dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape. They brainstormed about tactics and a new label. ... A month later ... the participants voted to promote the use of the term 'open source', and agreed to adopt with it the new rhetoric of pragmatism and market-friendliness that Raymond had been developing. The entire point of Open Source as a concept was to be more flexible and business-friendly than Stallman's Free Software movement. It's both hilarious and frustrating to see people today treat the OSI licenses as some sort of divinely appointed canon of morally good options when the entire concept exists to get away from moralizing. (I should clarify that I actually am more and more sympathetic to Stallman's vision, but I think that if we're going to moralize we should go all the way, not put a halo around the intensely and explicitly pragmatic open source principles.) [0] http://web.archive.org/web/20071115150105/https://opensource.org/history/ http://web.archive.org/web/20071115150105/https://opensource...