Interesting read.

"At the outset, 'open source' and 'free software' were synonyms. All code that was open was also free, and vice-versa. But over the ensuing decades, that changed, as Benjamin 'Mako' Hill explained in his 2018 Libreplanet keynote, 'How markets coopted free software’s most powerful weapon'."

#FreeSoftware#OpenSource#FLOSS#FOSS

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/14/pole-star/#gnus-not-utilitarian