What ever you do, never ever say "free software"! The VC's will send a black escalade to raid your house in the middle of the night! 8-) What's in question he

What ever you do, never ever say "free software"! The VC's will send a black escalade to raid your house in the middle of the night! 8-) What's in question here is the origin of the "free software" vs "open source" argument. "Open source" was from the beginning a tactic to seize the development model of "free software" and bend it to a coprporate profit motive. What could be better than getting a bunch of idealistic geks to write your s/w for you for free? A very real and practical thing that has been lost in the vilification of "free software" is the idea that a group of user's develop s/w that they need to use. As opposed to s/w that is developed to serve as a corporate product for sale. Thee are so many examples where "free software" could serve: such as a standards based word processor. Who would have thought the corp drones would be in the process of being drug into a subscription based version of M$ word in the new millenium 8-) Even after M$ being sued for anti-trust over the proprietary doc format. Don't worry, it's only going to get worse for here on out...