> But generalized and thus non-capitalized words "open source" and "free software" had been fuzzier, and pretty much all conversations about F/OSS deal with tha

> But generalized and thus non-capitalized words "open source" and "free software" had been fuzzier, and pretty much all conversations about F/OSS deal with that sense (the "common" sense hereafter). You'll have to provide some source for this argument. The very fact that we're having this conversation means that the fact that "Open Source" and "open source" are different things is, at the very least, controversial. "Free Software" has been a controversial term since the late 80s, I'll give you that, but the only confusion it ever brew was between "free as in freedom" vs "free as in free beer", and people thinking the term "free software" means "software I don't have to pay for" is rather common. But, as I said in another subthread, this whole mess about the meaning of "open source" only started recently when people started overloading the term to mean something other than "whan has been defined as 'Open Source' by the people who coined that term in regards to software in the first place" (i.e., the OSI). There was no confusion 10 years ago.